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You are totally right.

Google makes billions from advertisers - the companies who pay for ads, the companies who create those SEO-optimized marketing-pages. Those are the target audience, that Google wants to make happy.

Why would they care about us users? We don't pay for search.

One would think that given the purported depth and breadth of our economic system, it would be possible for that system to address all audiences instead of just catering to the most common denominator.

But we've been on a race to the bottom in most sectors for a long time now.

How could any system address all audiences of anything? Human wants are unlimited and unfixed. Might as well chase fairies.

Clicks and impressions do not necessarily need to be human clicks or human impressions.