When there was more competition for Google, and when ads and links for other Google products didn't take up half the page of search results, there was much, muc

When there was more competition for Google, and when ads and links for other Google products didn't take up half the page of search results, there was much, much more eye ball space, even though there were many fewer eyeballs. I'm not going to make the case for causation vs. correlation here, but this is part of the often mentioned general deterioration of the Internet.