I must be one of the few (or silent majority) for whom it's been working just fine. I often wonder what the differences are in the way we are searching, what extensions we have, what geography.
Those could be factors but the most important factor is how we're searching. I just searched for the topic you mentioned, and can see several relevant results at the top.
I had one very recently, obscure bug in some software I use. Google search only had 4 results. One was a partial match, but the result was from last month, and was just an index of bugs and had been updated, the that page didn't have the info, and Google didn't show a view cache option.
So I put it into DDG and found the actual bug report, from the page Google sorta had. And the bug report had a fix in it.
Huh, maybe switch primary Search engine to DDG may be help? thanks.
It feels like search engines are trying to be dumb after some LLMs are for production. Because (maybe) search engines don't make a cash for them. but LLMs do.
I haven't noticed any change just now, but Google search results felt pretty bad for me for a while, even for technical questions. I tried replacing a lot of my searches with ChatGPT, but I got tired of the false information it hallucinates pretty fast. I'm at a point where I'm considering giving Kagi a try and actually paying a subscription for my searches.
Those could be factors but the most important factor is how we're searching. I just searched for the topic you mentioned, and can see several relevant results at the top.
Maybe you could share what your words were?