Search engine is now extremely commercial so I go to AOL to search can you go back to the way it was before?

As of a month or so ago, I could search on Firefox and it worked fine. Now, most all the time when I search, I get only commercial sites. Very disappointing. I then just go to Explorer or AOL and get the search results without hardly any commercial sites. Is there a setting that I can change to get back to good search results?

Your search toolbar can be customised, you can choose which sites it will search. See [[Search suggestions]]
Of course if you are complaining about the results from say Google, and possibly the amount of adverts that is a separate matter.

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