IMHO search, hyper-centralization of content creation, and dopamine addiction to bite-sized content happened. You can no longer see new things you don't know about. You no longer want to explore, since search is faster and more rewarding.
My suggestion to refresh the feeling of wonder is to go to site directories instead of the search engine of choice, like: https://dmoz-odp.org
A miner can not tamper with the ledger. A miner can prevent certain transactions from coming through if they are the only miner on the network, but they can't forge transactions.
Which services would you recommend? Last time I searched for free general-purpose website archival sites (for personal bitrot prevention), I could find only archive.is and archive.org.
My suggestion to refresh the feeling of wonder is to go to site directories instead of the search engine of choice, like: https://dmoz-odp.org