I have literally never had that experience with any of the following search engines:

- DDG

- Kagi

- Bing (10+ years ago)

- Yahoo (I'm getting old...)

I searched by typing lists of keywords into the search box in the past. Maybe you're one of those people that types sentences, or relies heavily on synonym matching? (Which finally works now, but only if you turn on LLM mode -- even then, Google shipped that months or years after kagi, and the reviews are scathing vs. the performance I get out of the Kagi AI search.)