Yes, I use IRC and Usenet; I suggest these and also Unusenet (which, like Usenet, is based on NNTP and can be used with NNTP software). Search is the only function of Google that I use, although I do not need to make searches on Google much. Sometimes I find what I want on Wikipedia, sometimes in local documentations (in man pages and so on), sometimes bookmarked stuff, etc. So, I do not need the Google search so much, but sometimes it is helpful (and sometimes it is worthless; I try to find something but whether I try Google or DuckDuckGo, I cannot find any).