Replying to @futurebird@sauropods.win
@futurebird The degradation of search at Google was a deliberate choice, because they needed to juice search numbers after achieving a monopoly.
They could not organically make more searches happen, because enough of everyone was online and searching.
So, they made search worse so that you had to search more.
This was revealed in the court proceedings in the Google Search monopoly trial, in which Google was convicted (but not punished).