Started on the net late 1990.
At that time I could find more info on my ancestors than I can now. Now a search just leads to junk.
My wife is on the website’s Facebook page now. If you want to see the “sneak peek” you have to pay some exorbitant amount of money for each view, and even members only get a 10% discount. There are plenty of comments and very few are flattering.
I think you could say that about almost any search topic. In roughly the last 15 years the quality of search results dropped precipitously from what it was in the 90s. The control of search results and propaganda has grown so much in sophistication it makes it difficult to find reliable information.