Did you notice that the world's most popular search engine has been almost entirely a facade for over 5 years now?
Not just a 'left leaning' or 'ivermectin censoring' engine, but an engine that is almost entirely an illusion.
The publicly accessible version of Google Search now has less than one-hundred-thousandth of the web searching ability it had in 2005.
Did you even notice?
Did you notice that nearly every other search engine (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo... even Russia's Yandex) is a similarly fake search engine?
Want more details?
Here's a post and a video from a couple of noticers.
Its not a dead internet, its a walled internet. Every single website rejects crawlers and attempts to stop the flow of information, instead paying google yo promote whatever is in vogue - most of them coming from leftist concerns that were probably funded by the government.
You can find real content, but you can't drive on the nicely paved asphalt - you have to use forums, chat, and p2p and all of the things that take effort. And you will come up against the seedy things the internet offers.
And none of it is returned by internet searches, for several reasons. Mainly, though, it's costs. If you ever run your own index, you know that a large data set takes a decent amount of processing power to index and then the search is fast. Now imagine having 10,000 users operating inside your dataset and creating constant changes. The costs of supporting the processing go through the roof. Hardware, power, troubleshooting, what have you. Now expand that to a global index. Its not impossible, but everyone trying to build a better search engine will run out of money long before the goog is threatened. So the goog has been cutting corners since they became the kings back in the 00s.