today's search engines are better than ever before at finding whatever you're looking for IMO this is empathically not true. Not necessarily because Google ha

today's search engines are better than ever before at finding whatever you're looking for IMO this is empathically not true. Not necessarily because Google has gotten worse -- although I will argue that in some ways it has, especially by deleting or ignoring search terms that I explicitely include in my query while freely adding others that are only vaguely connected -- but because people have gotten better at gaming the system on an immense scale. Search for basic information on a topic and more often than not everything is an ad-ridden Wordpress site with lots of big pictures and ten paragraphs of SEO-optimizing fluff (because Google likes lots of text to harvest keywords from) before the actual information. Google has utterly failed at de-prioritizing all this useless nonsense, probably because they make money from ranking it high. I have to work much harder now than ten years ago at getting Google to return useful information.