This has been my experience as well. When using Google I used to ignore anything not on the first page. Now I often ignore the first two pages of results, hopin

This has been my experience as well. When using Google I used to ignore anything not on the first page. Now I often ignore the first two pages of results, hoping to get to some content that's not SEO-optimized-auto-generated-garbage. By that point of searching though it's pretty much a hail-mary scenario.