Between SEO gamification, ad spam in top search results, neutered advanced search capabilities, auto correction of search terms based on NN models which are reg

Between SEO gamification, ad spam in top search results, neutered advanced search capabilities, auto correction of search terms based on NN models which are regressing to the layman's mean, and increasing evidence of manual manipulation of search results/autocomplete, Google search is rapidly degenerating into a pile of garbage. Unfortunately their market cap combined with the status as the defacto portal to the internet makes them hard to unseat and DDG isn't quite as good yet. Give me back the Google of 5-10 years ago, and the rest of the internet from that time, not this ad and blogspam dominated AOL 2.0 joke of a net that we're quickly centralizing into. It's sad to see where ad based economics are driving the net.