No, sorry, the grandparent post is absolutely right. The search has been getting worse and worse every year to the point where I can't find specific articles I

No, sorry, the grandparent post is absolutely right. The search has been getting worse and worse every year to the point where I can't find specific articles I _know_ exist anymore. I know the article exists, I know it's indexed by Google, I know what it's about and I still can't find it after 5-6 increasingly sophisticated queries. I see the flip side of this as an admin of a small website. 10 years ago I used to get search engine traffic to articles based on queries about subjects of those articles. Today, this is just gone. I can't find my own damn website without explicitly using its domain name. Even if I search for a specific subject and go though multiple pages of results. Google thinks that one-paragraph summaries from content farms are more relevant that an edited multi-page essay from a website that existed for over a decade. Additionally, the article mentions another thing I've noticed. Google is obsessed by how frequently the website is updated. So, what if I spend extra time to write, verify and edit all my content? From what I cant tell, this reliably gets you ranked lower than website that crank out garbage in huge quantities.