Oh god, yes.
I could type in a question ten years ago and could usually get an answer in the first page or so.

I asked a question yesterday (about floor tiling) and got “Tiles? You want tiles? We’ve got tiles! Get your tiles here!”

“No, I want an answer about flooring.”
“FLOORING? You want flooring? We’ve got flooring! Get your flooring here!”

“Ok, fucking hell. Ok how do I join 2 types of substrate together…”
“MUTHERFUCKING, substrate? You want substrate? We’ve got…”

Then I gave up looking. Maybe it was always like this and I used to be more tenacious looking for answers.

For that matter, it felt like a peak for the rest of the internet, and everybody loved silicon valley and wanted to be Steve Jobs. Then the enshittification started.

Even when you get or the actual website results you now have to wade through the AI slop sites