It's not just you. There was a recent study showing Google Search has declined which generated a bunch of articles about it a few weeks ago.
I suspect it's a combination of Google prioritizing more and more revenue-maximizing changes (like inserting a distracting, space-hogging YouTube video section into many results pages) plus so much content now being SEO optimized (by both human authors and AI generators) to the point of being nearly useless.
I now have a Userscript that runs on Google Search pages that automatically makes over a dozen conditional changes to both my queries and the URL parameters, like adding "-site:youtube.com" to searches not on the Videos tab. I also have a couple of "Fix Google Search"-focused Firefox add-ons installed as well as at least half a dozen uBlock Origin Google Search-specific rules to hide various annoyances. Combined all this makes GSearch still sort of useful but I can tell it's a losing battle and I now often use either DuckDuckGo or Bing .
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It's not just you. There was a recent study showing Google Search has declined which generated a bunch of articles about it a few weeks ago.
I suspect it's a combination of Google prioritizing more and more revenue-maximizing changes (like inserting a distracting, space-hogging YouTube video section into many results pages) plus so much content now being SEO optimized (by both human authors and AI generators) to the point of being nearly useless.
I now have a Userscript that runs on Google Search pages that automatically makes over a dozen conditional changes to both my queries and the URL parameters, like adding "-site:youtube.com" to searches not on the Videos tab. I also have a couple of "Fix Google Search"-focused Firefox add-ons installed as well as at least half a dozen uBlock Origin Google Search-specific rules to hide various annoyances. Combined all this makes GSearch still sort of useful but I can tell it's a losing battle and I now often use either DuckDuckGo or Bing .