Try searching for a quote from an obscure show you watched when you were young. Not long ago Google would return pages of results. These days it's likely to return none.

Why do you hope they’re irrelevant? I hope they become better

Seeing at how non-tech people use Google I doubt that.

Also cancerous SEO sites (with affiliate links) pop up all the time if you search for product info or comparison.

I hope they are out-competed by a better alternative.

They get worse as time goes on. I’ve never seen them get better.

Yep. These days I use multiple tools to find what I need