So much clutter
The whole first page of a Google search is now almost total crap. I'm actually fine with the adverts, they take up space, but they do have to pay the bills - and I'm not paying myself. Although it was obviously a lot better when the ads had a little yellow patch, so you could identify them at a glance. But that's always been there, and there's no point getting annoyed at facts of life.
But now the rest of the page is full of LLM-generated shit. There used to often be a link to Wikipedia at the top, which has its faults but can be helpful, but now there's a whole paragraph often badly summarised from it with a link, taking up three times the space. Then there are often a couple more random paragaphs of crap, mostly with no link to tell you where it's been summarised from. Or even if its just been invented at random...
Text you've got about ten lines of "other searches like this" - which used to occasionally be useful if you'd got a technical term wrong or your particular search wasn't working. But now they just seem to have taken your query and put it through a thesaurus, which makes me suspect that's LLM-generated as well. Then, if you're lucky, you start hitting actual links.
Also, if you do this on your phone/tablet, Google have disabled pinch to zoom on their results page. So if you've not got your reading glasses you're buggered. Although there's less likely to be any useable information their anyway.
Remember when Google used to boast about having a UI team - where any time anybody wanted to put even a one-word link onto the Google homepage they had to jusitfy it? They may as well just bring back the blink tag now, and have done with it.
