Good Google was functionally gone when Doubleclick took them over. That was a loooong time ago. They gave up trying to fight search spam and just permanently b

Good Google was functionally gone when Doubleclick took them over. That was a loooong time ago. They gave up trying to fight search spam and just permanently broke their search in like 2008. Not long after that (IIRC) they started serving the same obnoxious ads as everyone else instead of their “nice” text-only ads, and stopped clearly marking inline ads in search results, so they could trick users and better-run their extortion racket (“pay us to advertise for your own company name or who knows where the people who are definitely trying to find your website might end up?”). The notion that they were notably better in 2017 than today reads like some kind of joke.