Yep, Google is pretty bad at many queries. Google may return relevant results, but those results are low quality. I’m ready to subscribe to a $5/month search engine that manually curates results, if that’s what it takes. Either the current state of AI can’t judge article quality, or Google isn’t motivated enough to solve that problem.

>Either the current state of AI can’t judge article quality, or Google isn’t motivated enough to solve that problem.

As far as Google is concerned, they have solved the problem of making boatloads of money through advertising. I don't see how they can give that up by changing what's working for them.

That's not really true. With bad search results people will do it less, that doesn't help them.

Or more?

I find myself doing more queries as results change. And for me, it is generally worse. Some of that is about Google, but not all.

Discord, IRC, for example, are not searchable in the way forums and other public discussions are. Just one example. There are many others.

I search more chasing down what I want to know and am now getting questions from google. "Did you buy one of these and from whom?"

Or, "get this question added to the web... and qualified people to answer it"

Those could reduce search, but dramatically improve the sale of ads related to me should I answer.

Meanwhile you could use you.com and qwant.com

This author should try the same search on teeth cleaning.

He will discover there is no evidence for any benefit to doing routine teeth cleaning.

It's only necessary if there is some sort of disease.

One flake of pepper left in a niche over time develops into a cavity that is essentially tooth disease. Something like this can happen even with regular brushing.

The benefit of cleaning being preventative, both to inhibit the development of disease and early treatment to reduce negative impact, seem obvious.