Quality of traditional web searches & AI/LLM answers

Quality of traditional web searches & AI/LLM answersDoes anyone have an opinion on the quality of traditional web searches over the last 20 years? I'm talking about search results on the big 4, Google, msn/Bing, Duckduckgo, Yahoo! search. yandex,ru, baidu.com (China), and mojeek.co.uk are others that I doubt anyone here uses. icerocket and gigablast are now gone. I'm wondering if they've been allowing the quality of search results to go down to be less competitive with the new LLM/AI type answers. I've used Bing and Duckduckgo, and there seems to be a huge number of content mill articles which come to the top of search results. A growing number of them are LLM generated too. Content mill articles are produced to get search engine hits to lead people to advertising, and it doesn't matter if the information in them is accurate. The page just has to look good enough to keep the user on the page long enough so they can see the advertising. The searches have also been made less strict so that popular pages which don't match all of the search keywords show up in results.Google stopped searching many discussion forum type websites some years ago, and that's where a lot search results for people doing DIY type projects could come from.Microsoft did a similar thing with Windows 8. They deliberate reduced the efficiency of their desktop OS by completely changing the interface, making it slow like mobile. I think they did this as part of an agenda to push mobile devices as the primary device, and they helped this happen sabotaging the traditional alternative.