From a recent HackerNews discussion about search engines, some harsh truth about the big shift in the last two decades:
>It is only more recently that they seem to have given up.
They haven’t given up; the OP has a point. The “sites” you are hoping for Google to return _don’t exist_. Any website online right now that doesn’t exist to drive ad revenue is exceedingly rare. In 2001, there were way more websites that existed just for fun; any tom, dick and harry could open up note pad and get a website online. That doesn’t exist anymore.
It’s my opinion that those who complain about Google search results are frustrated that Google can no longer find a web that no longer exists
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