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I used to be good at googling information I needed. Then Google changed what googling does.
Try to find a big rig truck wash near your location on Google maps. I cannot. Only 57 million car washes and no way to filter them out.
Edit: lo and behold: “big rig truck wash” is the magic phrase it turns out. “Truck wash”, “Semi truck wash”, “semi truck wash -car” don’t work but “big rig truck wash” does.
Fuck you Google, you waste my time.
Don't use Google. DDG works with keyword searches and you get exactly what you expect.
I do use DDG as my default. I was using "googling" for the sake of making a witty remark. Even so, the results are usually comparable - the first couple dozen results are mostly AI/SEO slop.
Oh, go to your DDG options and turn the AI slop off.
When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.