Hmm…interesting. Yeah I haven’t noticed a decline in general search like what you’re describing most of my search on Google still renders relevant and precise content. That said, I have noticed other issues like - searching for a source video used to return YouTube references (which work me) and now everything is spanned with TikTok links which I refuse to engage with.

When thinking about news content. My resting position is that everything that finds me via social media is doctored / manipulated as a minimum. So if something seems particularly shocking or emotive I’ll take the time to see if it’s real (it usually isn’t or the thing is real but to a far lesser degree than what is being proposed).

If I’m seeing something BBC, WSJ, Aljazeera, or SCMP, I’ll rate it more highly but still take the resting bias of the source into consideration. I’ll also often search at those sources directly to subvert google’s filtering.

Finally I’ve taken a hard stance of balancing everything that’s being pushed in the news against the empirical evidence of my lived social life outside my home. And it is at still point, almost to a rule, that the media narrative on any side, completely breaks down.