[brokencode]

With sponsored links and aggressive SEO, “Google it” has been falling apart as a source of facts for a long time.

There is an incredible gap in the search literacy between different users of Google. Some will accept what they find in the top links, no matter how dubious the source.

[muddi900]

I wrote about this just over 5 years ago: https://chapra.blog/search-is-dead-352/

Google had already transformed the open web to the point of uselessness anyway.