This is the sort of information that is fucking impossible to find nowadays. There was a sweet spot from like 2001-2016 where you could easily find a reliable answer to that sort of question

This is pre "ai" as it's now being sold. Machine written websites written to hit search results, an enshitification I noticed particularly around 2021, becoming ubiquitous.

You nailed the trajectory of these now worthless articles though, and quick answers are now removed off of the search page, AI summaries only providing them, to force us to use it unless we want to wade through machine written garbage articles.

I refuse to use ai like that, they can eat dick (more of it.)

Ironically, the AI summary solves this exact problem in many cases. “How do I do ?” — “You do to achieve ” — “Oh, right” (closes the tab instead of reading about the history of ).

Of course, I wouldn't trust it with life-altering situations, and neither would I trust random blogs. I'd consult some kinda dog-oriented WebMD.

This is why I use AI for search now. Even with Kagi most of the results are massive hunks of either AI or human generated slop, so I might as well just generate the slop myself and get something more concise, and when the AI does do search it can filter through the bullshit a lot faster