Web content itself had gone to shit these days, in order to win google’s SEO game to win google’s Adsense game. “Google going to shit” is just a second order effect (or third/forth depending how you look at it).
The good content has not disappeared. So it is still google going to shit if it can't make up what is good and what isn't, which was the reason people started using it in the first place 25 years ago.
