since Google became a thing (as in it took over from AltaVista)

it was becoming better for my purposes, and as manipulators advanced their counteradvances worked up to 2014 or so

but it’s gotten less useful to me lately not for their fault but because the content is just shittier

if I look up some obscure corner of history the first page are listicles and the second page are stupid angry propaganda nationalist bloggers and the third page is stupid angry authentic nationalist bloggers and it’s only in the fourth page I get the intelligent authentic angry nationalist bloggers I know how to compensate for