It's because Google has never been focussed on search quality imo. No search engine produces high quality results anymore. Especially since you get the clear s

It's because Google has never been focussed on search quality imo. No search engine produces high quality results anymore. Especially since you get the clear spam sites that somehow reference your query in the page content (where they've just spammed loads of keywords, but also pretty sure some spam sites are doing something dynamic with it).