I have noticed this on YouTube as well, I would assume something similar is happening on other video sites.
Sometimes there is a video on a trending topic among the first few Google search results, and when you go over to YouTube and have a look it turns out to be a montage of stock and/or stolen photos, with a synthesized voice reading a narration that was obviously churned out by a content mill somewhere very low-wage, if not generated by "AI."
It baffles me that Google ranks these things highly, it's not like they don't have an eye on YouTube activity.
In the end I have no better explanation than institutional rot: so much money is flowing in, and engineering incentives are so perverse, any problem that doesn't directly irritate the cash cow is not gonna get fixed.
This is very common for electronic gadgets that haven't come out yet. Since there are no real reviews, but enough search interest, people will make awful slideshow-based videos that just repeat the specs and use OEM's own teaser footage.
I've started using YaCy and Searxng for searches. It was terrible at first but I set my YaCy engine off indexing high quality sites that I find useful for the subjects I'm interested in.
It's refreshing in some ways - the content I get is definitely "outside of my promoted echo chamber". However, you really need to use use query syntax to get decent results, something I'd gotten out of the habit of doing with Google (actually, I'm convinced Google ignored it half the time even if you tried).
Sometimes there is a video on a trending topic among the first few Google search results, and when you go over to YouTube and have a look it turns out to be a montage of stock and/or stolen photos, with a synthesized voice reading a narration that was obviously churned out by a content mill somewhere very low-wage, if not generated by "AI."
It baffles me that Google ranks these things highly, it's not like they don't have an eye on YouTube activity.
In the end I have no better explanation than institutional rot: so much money is flowing in, and engineering incentives are so perverse, any problem that doesn't directly irritate the cash cow is not gonna get fixed.