Turns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company.
https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/
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You may be interested in this video by Gamers Nexus from about 10 months ago:
"Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
https://youtu.be/-vMKm44ypFY
Basically, Google has made their search engine results purposefully worse, so that users need to keep scrolling to find the correct search results, while they feed more ads to users.