Setting aside for a moment the fact that virtually no one online has noticed that essentially every web search engine is now a search engine illusion (a facade - a 'Potemkin village'), we have a second issue at hand:
When these search engine illusions become the topic of discussion, virtually no one has any clue how powerful the search engines were before the illusions arrived, or how they were used.
This shouldn't be possible absent the killing-off of just about everybody who was using the Internet between 1998 and 2020.
I have no explanation for it.
There's some kind of Internet (maybe even reality) manipulation taking place that shouldn't be possible.
I used to be able to get pages hidden behind firewalls - anything that ever hit the internet was fair game. It was very useful for finding information on obscure parts and products without having to search through layers of corporate sales tactics or having to sign up for spam and solicitations just to get a spec sheet or solve a problem.