Why Google search is not search but trend spotting

Google is broken and all the King's horses and all the King's men...

Google search (and not just Google's) have more and more become less about quest (finding something one does not know) or inquiry but trend watching. The Web is more and more invisible and replaced by metrics of popularism and politics of a volksempfanger.

Searching for the phrase (pulled from a current news article)
        kebab and pie kiosk
        (no quotes or + etc. so the query runs as it was typed)

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