The results were probably never perfect, but in the last 2-6 years search results have become blantly manipulated...searching for pretty much any political topic (and even other topics) always yields articles from NYT, WaPo as well as 'fact checkers' which are all spreading blatant propaganda and falsehoods.
In the same time they've nornalized mass censorship on major social media platforms where a large amount of (particualrly political) speech occurs nowadays (that in itself is a big problem), to the point of having an uncensored rival's servers pulled.
I've also seen dissident blogs hosted on WordPress and Blogger get shut down.
I haven't used Google to find anything political or really much else since 2016. I kind of assumed everyone had noticed this by now.
I had stopped using google altogether some years ago. But google does still work better for factual non-political research, finding books etc. so I use it for that.
Creepy, very creepy: had to be google since it was over 20 yrs ago. I was trying to find shoes made in the USA or at least not in China; searched for girls shoes, got returned lots of porn sites!! Obviously those were pushed to the top. Sick.
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” ~ George Orwell
Yeah, don't use Google for ANYTHING. Google got stupid about 5 years ago. It went from being a good information platform to a purely commercial platform. If, say, one were to Google the word "Ford" hoping to find information about the Ford Motor Co., what you get is page after page of Ford dealerships trying to sell you a Ford.
Nowadays I use FreeSpoke for all my searches.
Yes, even the so called 'good' search sites are crap.
It's only a matter of time.
Creepy. Frustrating. Infuriating.
Bad tech actors and FNM are the gatekeepers for the flow of truth and, IMO, responsible for the destruction of society. This is deliberate, by design. Remove and replace the bad players in these two business arenas and we'll have a whole new world.