I don‘t think your examples are very good, these are very generic search terms and if the results are good or bad very much depends on the person searching and what they are looking for.
The recipe filter is approaching something I'd want to explore further, to be able to provide contextual information outside of the search query.
For signed in accounts (which is pretty much is ~3bn Android and/or Chrome users), Google can predict what the user might prefer and yet...
We've already constrained "what we're looking for" to be "niche expert pages" further up thread. If we're seeing niche expert pages even for generic search results, that's probably a good indication that the search engine behaves the way RandomWorker is describing