[pddpro]

For one, like you said, there are so many spam websites out there that it's extremely difficult for Google (or any search engine for that matter) to gather genuine results. I also think that it's a matter of incentive. As long as traffic doesn't decline, does Google really have any incentive to fix or improve things?

Also, I presume the search algorithm is not how it used to be too, what with ML models being used left and right. I wonder if anyone really knows how we get the results anymore. There are a few initiatives like kagi but I know too few about them to say anything at this point. For now, I am quite content with appending "reddit" at the end of every non-technical query nowadays... at least until they start gaming this as well.