Google very very highly weights recent events. Makes it a pain in the ass to try to dig up historic information.
It is no longer a search engine in the traditional sense, it's just returning a bad AI guess at what a full LLM prompt would have been for this query, followed by I guess just the most popular links containing one of the words. Nothing about the results is recognizable as a result that would have been returned even a year ago. This is evident from the "Ask Google" branding rather than "Search Google". Google Search is dead as we knew it.
It's a number of things like:
1. not searching for exact quotes/text, only words in the query;
2. including other lexical forms in the results (e.g. searching for things like "how do you open the run dialog" returns results for running (the sport/exercise) as well as run (an application));
3. including synonyms, typos, etc.
It seems like while each change makes sense and can improve results in some cases, over time the combined effect has made Google's search near unusable.