Google is so odd these days, its like there are two "streams" of results. One is the kind of useless slop that the article in question is rightfully complaining

Google is so odd these days, its like there are two "streams" of results. One is the kind of useless slop that the article in question is rightfully complaining about, but other results are still useful and high quality. The second stream is what I seem to get when I'm forced to "!g" when I'm using DuckDuckGo, and I can't work out why theres this stratification, this separation. Years ago, it was very rare to get crap results from Google. Now its far more common.