Whatever it was called, it was way better than whatever Google is doing currently.

In fairness, there wasn't the level of utter crap back then that there is now. Not that there wasn't a LOT back then, but there is even more now.

People say that, but on the other hand companies like Google have a lot of much better ways of categorizing things now than they did in the past. I'm not sure I buy the excuse of "gosh, it's just too hard for us :(" from this international company worth trillions employing geniuses.

It really feels either intentional or egregiously incompetent.

That's fair.

We literally have internal emails[1] showing that Google simply gives no shit about the quality of its search engine's results.

[1]: [The Man Who Killed Google Search](https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/)

How comes yandex.com can show me results that contain my search term? Most egregious example: I am searching for name of abandoned blogspot domain: yandex shows me 1 result, which is that domain. Goolge shows me "no results" fishing monster. Blogspot is google service !!!