I commented on a different post a few days ago with my thoughts about why this is happening, in my opinion it is a problem that has evolved over several years:

I commented on a different post a few days ago with my thoughts about why this is happening, in my opinion it is a problem that has evolved over several years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19111306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19111306 A Search Quality engineer at Google responded to me but I didn't find their arguments very convincing (nor did a number of repliers). I have switched over completely to Searx on most of my devices, and by telling it to weight results from Bing, DDG and Google I feel I get better results than from any of those search engines alone.