Checkout Kagi. You can blacklist sites. You can also weight certain sites higher than others. I've been using it for almost a year at this point. When I'm forced to use Google at work, I am legitimately less effective at finding the information I need.
replyGoogle search is just broken.
replyMaybe SEO-maxxers will finally leave it alone now if the median consumer trusts the corporate models
reply-site:medium.com in the search bar
replyThis will remove any results from there for you.
Alternatively, site:news.ycombinator.com would search this website explicitly.