Google's results consistently don't hold up for high-intent visitors, yeah. A .gov site isn't (overly) concerned about bounce rate - people have no other locati

Google's results consistently don't hold up for high-intent visitors, yeah. A .gov site isn't (overly) concerned about bounce rate - people have no other location to bounce to, they will consistently wait out latency to do what they need to do. It does still help of course, just at tiny fractions of the impact that Google saw.