PageRank, when initially designed, was there to let things that are really valuable rise to the top. As soon as Google became the top search engine, it was obv

PageRank, when initially designed, was there to let things that are really valuable rise to the top. As soon as Google became the top search engine, it was obvious that it's going to get gamed. And the arms race was on. Google has not stayed on top of it, thus Google has gotten worse. Internet, strictly speaking, has gotten better as it mostly is a superset of the old internet, but search results favour new content over the old one significantly. A search engine that gave more weight to older stuff for things that are not in need of regular updates would probably resurface the good content of the old internet. But how out of date would it be? Not my problem, but Google's. Thus, Google is worse.