Don't forget how Google will now drop search terms if it thinks you mean something else, or add unrelated synonyms to your search (presumably to "help" folks who aren't good at writing queries)
I heard that before and have trouble believing this is the cause at least for Internet recipes. Sure for a recipe book in 1950, but are recipe content farms going to sue each other? Isn't the lawyer costs way more than could be gained?
Browsing today is like: “You ask for a spaghetti recipe and the page tell you the whole history of civilization.”