The main problem with OP's experience is that the AI response has absolutely nothing to do with the search results and is functioning purely as a chatbot.
It seems to be a mix of LLM + RAG, with the RAG search results preferring what's fresh vs what has at least been endorsed by pagerank.
It seems to be a mix of LLM + RAG, with the RAG search results preferring what's fresh vs what has at least been endorsed by pagerank.