https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/google-search-is-falling-behind
Don't know about falling behind other than falling behind a previous Google year.
Seems like in many examples if they fell back to their 10 blue links they'd be less bad.
The Neeva examples look great, but realistically, if Google did that, people would scream bloody murder. The "new" image search destroyed traffic to photography sites. Snippets can destroy traffic too.
Giving the actual code or actual recipe would be catastrophic for any page that is trying to monetize with ads. Which goes back to the discussion with Brad and the Web 1.0 discussion. On the one hand, if your goal is to spread and share information, great. On the other hand, the fact is that because I don't monetize my blog and it doesn't really matter, I post once a year if I'm feeling motivated.
So Neeva as shown in the examples looks great... but it also looks like the death of Web 1.0
On the other hand, the feature where you can prioritize sites you like is a step in the right direction, though I feel like blacklisting would be better. I don't want to prioritize sites I already know. I want to ban sites I know to be bad.