> On the other side, I've also noticed it appears to be aggressively pruning its index in the past few years In terms of breadth and depth, the quality of goog

> On the other side, I've also noticed it appears to be aggressively pruning its index in the past few years In terms of breadth and depth, the quality of google search has declined noticeably. They don't have any real competitors in search so they can do whatever they want. > now it's nearly impossible for anything but the most vapid of queries. Rather than getting us want we want, they want to gives us what they want. A narrow band of approved results. Youtube is like this as well, but then again, youtube and google are both part of Alphabet. It's like google news was a test run and they slowly exported it to search, youtube, etc.