Recently, after doing some Google mandated updates of MusicSync , my music player Android application, I received the following error in Android Studio during the build process.
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I tried to search for the error on Google, and got zero results .

While Perplexity gave me 6 possible causes of this.
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The third suggestion of the Gradle cache being corrupted looked promising answer.
Especially because I was doing a Gradle version update.
So, doing a clean build after deleting the Gradle cache ~/.gradle/caches
resolved the issue.
I am definitely perplexed though.
Android comes from Google.
The error message came during Android build process.
The error message came from tools provided by Google.
It showed up in Android Studio, which is also from Google.
Yet, Google Search couldn’t find a single cause for the error message.
And this is not the only anecdotal evidence of Google Search failing to find relevant results. Something seems to be happening at Google which is making it less reliable.

Or, fairly frequently, I see nonsensical search results that are completely unrelated to the page contents.
The title of the page is "firebase-crashlytics-gradle:3.0.1 uploadCrashlyticsMappingFileRelease FAILED" and not 0. Rapid experimentation is really killing Google search.
— Ashish Bhatia (@ashishbhatia) May 25, 2024
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There is a deterioration in the quality of search results. And these days, I frequently find myself using Perplexity as my primary search engine.