I have just caught myself: I haven't used Google search for weeks, to find anything I wanted to read. When I wanted to buy something, or to find the source of a quoted article, or just "which song was it that had this line", fine, google it out. But looking for sources, let alone articles, about pretty much anything, I've found Wikipedia the far more usable place.

First, nobody is trying to sell me anything on Wikipedia.

Sixth, bots copying articles from one another - not happening on Wikipedia. (I once tried to look up Procol Harum, and about one particular album there were a total of three articles, which Google found in about six thousand places)

Seventh, Google will always find articles about the books about... all sorts of derivatives, and derivatives upon derivatives, instead of original text.

Eighth, Google will often list results from local search engines as if they contained anything but links to content already listed or not existing anymore.

Ninth, nobody is wasting time trying to make a Wikipedia bomb in software. These articles are at least manually copied and pasted, piece by piece. It's not done by any bot generating text from scraps.

Nine is enough for me. Google has its place, it's just that the definition of that place is a work in progress.