[userbinator]

Yes, I remember several years ago --- more like 8 now(!) --- easily finding results in GitHub repos whenever I've needed to look up error codes and such. Now even site:github.com doesn't (and if you try too hard, you get the hellban for a while).

Another extremely noticeable degradation is in finding part numbers, IC markings, service manuals (NOT the useless user manual), schematics, and the like. Anything that proponents of right-to-repair would be extremely interested in, to the extent that I wonder if there's been some sort of conscious effort being made by certain interests to eliminate or limit such information.

Then there's the niche-but-legal adult content. I won't go into too much detail about that, but suffice to say it used to be far easier to find.

It's been 5 years since this notorious item here, and I've only seen Google get worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16153840