Indeed. And if you have to click through a couple of results to find an actual answer, they get ad revenue X times over answering your question with the first r

Indeed. And if you have to click through a couple of results to find an actual answer, they get ad revenue X times over answering your question with the first result. There was a time when Google Search would nearly always nail it with the first result, but now it feels like you have to wade through several results and be a prompt engineer to find relevant results.