Absolutely. It's WAY harder to find things I'm looking for today than it was 10 years ago. WAY harder. Sometimes impossible.
Like you say, bots, bad indexing, index gin propaganda / fake results, extremely heavy handed censor-ship, most communication has been gated into social media giants (forums used to be BIG BIG BIG - All replaced by social media shit).
Some elements of the internet are way cooler and works way better - but the internet as a knowledge sharing / gathering phenomena has declined so much it's almost unbearable.
Absolutely. It's WAY harder to find things I'm looking for today than it was 10 years ago. WAY harder. Sometimes impossible.
Like you say, bots, bad indexing, index gin propaganda / fake results, extremely heavy handed censor-ship, most communication has been gated into social media giants (forums used to be BIG BIG BIG - All replaced by social media shit).
Some elements of the internet are way cooler and works way better - but the internet as a knowledge sharing / gathering phenomena has declined so much it's almost unbearable.