I haven't used Google in about 3 years. I use duckduckgo and I just eventually figured out how to use it, you have to be a little more specific but I can get what I'm looking for straight away these days. I'm aware they're not private anymore since they got bought out but I use technology like this with the assumption any data that can be collected, is collected, and will be sold off at some point, so don't search anything you wouldn't want your grandmother knowing about lol.
Yeah pretty clear attempt from Putin to apply reverse psychology. "If I say I want Biden, they'll vote for Trump, I truly am a mastermind teehee"