If you do a search for "Pizza" Google tells you it has about 2,320,000,000 results(Over 2 billion).
In the past you could go to about page 35 and you could have reached the end. Then Google would tell you there was a little more than 500 results.
The bottom of the page on google search used to be something like this
GOOOOOOOOOGLE
Page 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9...
Now the bottom just says "see more->"
No matter what you searched for it was the same. They would quote you a massive number of results but in reality there were only a few hundred.
Almost nobody would look past the first few pages.
So the impression you are left with is Google is a massive search engine that is covering the entire planet. There is no reason to look anyplace else.
The reality is, Google is lying and their search engine is just a typical search engine like any other. By Pretending to be a massive search engine they have been able to control the internet. Almost nobody searches past whatever Google provides because they believe there is nothing else.
Interesting. It suddenly occurs to me that I don't do many deep searches anymore like I used to. Maybe because I made Brave my main browser years ago 😂 Brave is weak. But apparently so is gulag!