It's been this way ever since they delisted product pages, at the same time they started charging for "shopping" tab listings. Idk if it was a coincidence, but

It's been this way ever since they delisted product pages, at the same time they started charging for "shopping" tab listings. Idk if it was a coincidence, but it seems like that exclusion filter was (and is) overly aggressive. IMHO, this spawned the era of fake reviews and crappy commission websites. Google forced multiple layers of un-needed middle management, which of course spawned multiple layers of advertising. (Search ads to find reviews site. Banner ads on review site. Commission links to get to actual product page. Instead of just search and click product page.) The same perverse "layering" system seems to have happened for recipe sites, although I'm not sure why. Search results list tons of home chefs, reviewers, and the crappy sites that think adding 3 paragraphs of shitty narrative improves the quality of their knock-off recipe.