[newguy1234]

I agree as well with google. When google first showed up, it was a breakthrough since the quality of the results were so good compared to what we are used to. Fast forward to today - more data, more websites and so on has resulted in new problems and I think Google has not kept up. Just because a website has been around for a decade or has 50,000 backlinks doesn't mean it is still good today. Information might be obsolete. Websites like this usually rank high in the search results page while being low-value. Meanwhile, higher-value websites that are more recent get lower rankings even though the quality is superior. Google is not able to make these connections. It seems like AI might be able to improve the quality of search results if applied correctly.

[sethherr]

To the contrary, new websites with garbage content, swamped by ads - but published recently - often rank above actual quality sites with well written content from 10 years ago.

Not saying what you described doesn’t happen, but both are problems.