Your comment highlights the shift in perception of search engines between around a decade ago and now. In the past &quot;search&quot; was something people did, while search engine was a tool that helped them. Right now &quot;search&quot; is something Google does. Human, on the other hand, are seen more like a passive recipients of information.<p>My point is, Google&#x27;s algorithms <i>do not need</i> to tell the difference between good and bad articles. They need to give users tools for effectively filtering out the garbage they don&#x27;t want to see. As far as I can tell, Google does not even try to provide that. Instead, they have a mysterious algorithm that&#x27;s supposed to feed you the &quot;right&quot; results if if it knows who you are.