You make it sound as if there has always been a high threshold of "goodness" in search engines, and Google has always been above that. I think it was only 2-3 y

You make it sound as if there has always been a high threshold of "goodness" in search engines, and Google has always been above that. I think it was only 2-3 years ago when people were saying how bad Google search had become because of all the spammy sites popping up in search results. And years before that Google was even worse. So how did people manage then? If they did it then, they can do it now, too, if there are other factors that are of higher priority to them, such as privacy. This feels like the "but Intel will always be more powerful than ARM" kind of argument (which hopefully, many have learned by now that it was a pointless and irrelevant argument when it came to the success of ARM).