For the first time in twenty years, I find myself regularly using an alternate search engine in search of the 'simple and obvious' results I could once get from Google.

I don't love that that search engine is Yandex, for various reasons; but I can no longer wrangle the results I need by any tricks or Google-Fu that still work, from Google, and Yandex keeps it simple.

If I could date when Google results went from annoying to 'repellent', I would say maybe 6-8 weeks ago.