Went to YouTube to find the George HW Bush baseball meme. The search term pops up but the result is nowhere to be seen. Eight videos of bush doing the first pitch and then snl sketches. Went to google, similarly no results. Went to duckduckgo and got it immediately.
Like shits unusable, if someone dislikes a video and has money they absolutely can get it taken off the search systems most people use.
Glad I'm not the only one noticing it. It seems to just keep getting worse. One thing I've noticed, besides what other people have mentioned, is that I used to be able to search for questions about video game mechanics or solutions or whatever and get links to the game wiki, forum posts, or even walkthroughs. Now I have to wade through a dozen nearly identical articles that I can only assume are algorithmically generated that spend hundreds of words to answer a simple question. The same thing has happened for patch notes, and most fucking infuriating of all: tech support.
Good golly gosh is it rough searching a problem you have with windows or some software these days. It's just a pile of results that give the same fucking series of troubleshooting tips and then direct you to some garbage software.
It drives me fuckin crazy.
Most complicated technical questions are best answered by adding site:reddit.com to the query. Nowadays, that's the only way not to get a stupid blog article vaguely related to the most commercially valuable words that happen to be in your search.
Typically it's someone actually putting their reputation on the line to answer a question that another real human has asked.
Are you sure you wouldn't like a "video tutorial", instead of a nice text document that you could easily scan over and search at your own pace?