What are you trying to find? It's not the quality of search that has declined but the quality of the web itself. What used to be interesting blogs are now ad-filled SEO garbage. Good content is now more and more behind logins and paywalls. So much of the rest is bot generated.
Search as a concept is useless unless you know exactly what you are looking for and know that it will be in the top 3 results (for example a company's official website or a wikipedia article).
Search as a concept is useless unless you know exactly what you are looking for and know that it will be in the top 3 results (for example a company's official website or a wikipedia article).