Google once stated that their primary goal was to get you off of Google property as quickly as possible- IE deliver your search result and get you where you want to go. That was the exact opposite of every other major website at the time (search engines, ‘portals’, etc) which wanted to keep you in.

It’s what made Google great. They were laser focused on the best search experience.

Now their search kinda sucks, it’s all AI and fuzzy logic and whatnot and even with quotes and Verbatim it STILL doesn’t just search for what I typed in not what you thought I wanted