(I use Kagi, DDG, and OpenAI for search primarily, all paid for, so my first hand experience with Google Search is limited, intentionally; are faster poor results better than slightly slower good results? I can spare a few seconds for better, this is not high frequency trading)
https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_20...
https://fortune.com/2024/01/18/why-is-google-search-so-bad-s... | https://archive.is/CLO4S
https://searchengineland.com/google-to-cut-thousands-of-sear...
(I use Kagi, DDG, and OpenAI for search primarily, all paid for, so my first hand experience with Google Search is limited, intentionally; are faster poor results better than slightly slower good results? I can spare a few seconds for better, this is not high frequency trading)