looking over the comments here, people seem to be assuming this is because of googles scraping and presenting of data on the search results page. but knowing my

looking over the comments here, people seem to be assuming this is because of googles scraping and presenting of data on the search results page. but knowing my experiences with google search over the past few years, I immediately assumed this was because google search is getting worse and worse every day. after reading the article, the author doesn't correlate the findings with a cause, so who knows what the real reason for this is. but I know for me at least, it now takes me 3, 4 or 5 searches to find an abstract with something that looks even close. maybe I such at google searches, but after doing hundreds a day for over 12 years, I feel google search just got reaaaal shitty some time in the past few years. ddg use to not even be close to google in result quality, now, imo, they are on par with each other. and that is largely due to googles decline, ddg only got slightly better.