Google used to give 50 or whatever pages of search results, the first page usually having exactly what you searched for.

Now you get a top page AI that incorrectly answers your question, the majority of the rest of the page is sponsored crap, and the search results are links to whatever sites monetized and SEO’d the best to be google’s top results. So you try again, using “-“ and other modifiers to get rid of the undesirable results, and instead google views that as encouragement to include even more bad results. And you only get a page or two of results anymore because what you’re searching for apparently doesn’t exist anywhere on billions of websites.

Google isn’t a search engine anymore. It’s a server of monetized pages.