The reason Google is uniquely bad at this is because Google poisoned its own well years and years ago. Google is SEO and SEO is Google. The whole company is inextricable from the concept of ranking based on "what generates the most advertising value and eyeballs", and not "what is actually verifiable, reasonable, evidence-based, or legitimate".

Google banked on those two things being similar enough in the early days of the internet to generate billions of dollars, but strayed so far from "don't be evil" that they no longer see that they were instrumental in pushing the two apart.