[fatbird]

You really are missing the experience of what google offered for their first decade, when pagerank seemed revolutionary in terms of filtering out spam and 101-level SEO tricks. We had working search engines for a while, and they were taken from us by, first, the providers in seeking greater ad revenue, and second, the AI floggers who want to exploit our now lowered expectations.

All you're doing here is justifying your lowered expectations.