12 Years is a long time... fighting "the previous war" doctrine type results. Not to dismiss any non-public changes, but never the less, search results quality

12 Years is a long time... fighting "the previous war" doctrine type results. Not to dismiss any non-public changes, but never the less, search results quality has suffered. Maybe search results isn't their funnel to relevant ads but rather they want to serve up ads while skipping the quality results step most people expect.