> Seems like people aren't interested in writing words on the Internet unless they expect to get paid from it somehow. Google dramatically changed how content

> Seems like people aren't interested in writing words on the Internet unless they expect to get paid from it somehow. Google dramatically changed how content was found and also how much there was. Since Google has a effective stranglehold on online advertising they have become the effective "tastemaker" for the internet. If Google thinks it is popular then people write SEO focused content on that subject and that is what shows up when you search since those sites also host Google ads. Search engines are also not very good. The model that made sense for the pre-Google internet doesn't really produce meaningful result anymore