I’ve been doing search engine optimization, and trying to rank websites since Altavista, Google Panda, Penguin, exact match domain spam, etc since early 2000s and almost all pages of sites I’ve created have been indexed. So we can fight anecdata vs anecdata all day.

And i’m not even defending Google. They’re awful especially their recent decision to sell their domain biz to Squarespace. I hate Google as much as you. But whether Google is good or bad has nothing to do with this. Thats an emotional strawman