You can still find things if you work really hard for it. But the point is that Google could give you better results, it knows how. It is CHOOSING not to because worse results for you means better profits for them.
sometimes i still use https://millionshort.com/ for filtering out those crap tier sites; web site search engine still means finding useful webpages - i hope the AI search engines do recognize that as a target to list actual useful sites vs the 1-summary-to-rule-them-all