I often include other factors like "recent time period" for searches because, yeah, it doesn't work right anymore. Too many bots. The internet is becoming "by" bots and "for" bots, and it's weird... Gives a false illusion of popularity, but it's hard to truly notice. So many automatically generated webpages.
On youtube, for example, there's "cat burger" that comes up in my "cartoon sneeze" search. There's hundreds of copies of this video, none of which are relevant, all with different numbers of views on an otherwise identical channel. It's bots, each one hoping to become a viral channel. It's so incredibly wasteful to see.