The quality has dropped massively, even compared to 5 years ago.
Partly it is an input issue. Interesting conversations are increasingly happening in walled gardens like Telegram.
Academic websites rarely show up any longer. Even for simple keywords the number of search results is sometimes only 8 pages. If you read all of them or your queries get too specific, you are classified as a bot and get the "unusual activity" nag screen.
It was good while it lasted. I think Google could be disrupted now.
Partly it is an input issue. Interesting conversations are increasingly happening in walled gardens like Telegram.
Academic websites rarely show up any longer. Even for simple keywords the number of search results is sometimes only 8 pages. If you read all of them or your queries get too specific, you are classified as a bot and get the "unusual activity" nag screen.
It was good while it lasted. I think Google could be disrupted now.