You may find this hard to believe but, there are places that exist that are not America.
We like to call this "The rest of the world".
It's nice and there are many friendly people.
Now let's take an example of a place in the rest of the world:
Perth, Australia.
What's the flight time of a packet from Perth to Mountain View? 300ms -400ms? Taken each way that's almost a second.
Hyperbole? not at all.
You may now continue living in total oblivion to the world around you.
Also you say they've hidden the extra content. The same extra content which was just more ads. You're actually making the contention that google was cleverly hiding all the ads from you?
No it wasn't. It was cleverly pushing real results below the fold where they will stop distracting users from the ads.