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People who respond like you have are either being willfully obtuse about how awful search has gotten or honestly do not remember how it was 5-10 years ago. As others have mentioned, SEO has all but made search useless for anything outside a narrow window of need. I used to be able to do "deep dives" into the dusty corners of the internet to find things using google and now it's about useless for that.

And I've /recently/ hunted for something obscure, couldn't find it, managed to find an old bookmark to it, the server was still online and the content I wanted was still there. And no amount of crafting of a google search would bring it up. And the server in question didn't contain copyrighted material which would have resulted in a takedown block or anything like that.

It's frustrating how /bad/ Google has gotten for anything other than fairly basic, high level "searching".