Funny that people call these "bugs" as if anything related to google search happens on accident.
They don't need to waste the eng resources or infrastructure on rock solid search anymore, they own the market and got all the users into their funnel of products, most locked in for life.
Search results still show sponsored listings, they still have all the users, and all the profit, and a lot less of the profit sucking operational costs it took to be good at what made them a household name, search
They aren’t inserting junk, they just don’t do anything to rank quality results above the junk anymore. The junk was always there, on page 2 and beyond, and who would ever need to hit those pages. Nowadays I’ll be 15 pages deep and so far off base of the search term that I could write a better index with curl and regex.
The issue isn’t that they are watering down the cream in the milk, it’s that the cream isn’t part of the milk at all now.
They don't need to waste the eng resources or infrastructure on rock solid search anymore, they own the market and got all the users into their funnel of products, most locked in for life.
Search results still show sponsored listings, they still have all the users, and all the profit, and a lot less of the profit sucking operational costs it took to be good at what made them a household name, search