Primarily, quality content and discussions are now all paywalled (e.g. journals, magazines, newspapers, comment threads, and original content).
Secondarily, remnant content is trivial search engine marketing content. This content is low quality, low information, often false, with a low-grade reading level.
Third, google is actively down-ranking & removing “controversial” content in the name of ML fairness & integrity. In many cases this may be just, but it’s also going to lower the overall content quality because almost everything innovative is going to be controversial .
So you have at least three massive forces preventing quality content & discussions from being found on web search.
Primarily, quality content and discussions are now all paywalled (e.g. journals, magazines, newspapers, comment threads, and original content).
Secondarily, remnant content is trivial search engine marketing content. This content is low quality, low information, often false, with a low-grade reading level.
Third, google is actively down-ranking & removing “controversial” content in the name of ML fairness & integrity. In many cases this may be just, but it’s also going to lower the overall content quality because almost everything innovative is going to be controversial .
So you have at least three massive forces preventing quality content & discussions from being found on web search.