[kogok89]

This says more about a shift in the way of consuming content, and the quality of the content than the search results quality/algorithm itself. People are tired of fluff and want direct quick answers; Reddit, TikTok, Pinterest, etc, all provide that.

People don't want to search for a bread recipe, click to see it and be forced to scroll through 3 folds of ads and the history of bread in eastern europe, to get to the list of ingredients.

[herval]

> People are tired of fluff and want direct quick answers;

When didn't people want "direct quick answers"? Google got popular because that's what it used to give you - the answer you want used to always be the first or second...

[photochemsyn]

Physical cookbooks are still quite nice to have around for this reason.

[cplusplusfellow]

I would (and have) buy a cookbook on Amazon before sitting through recipe ads. It’s as bad as porn hub.