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Hours and menus normally come from Maps. News often comes from social media, unfortunately. But Google rarely helps me there either. Concert tickets is probably an app or venue website (but I don't really go to many concerts because fuck Ticketmaster).
Not that I don't Google stuff, but it's way less useful than it used to be.
I'm over fifty (though fuck does it feel unreal to say that).
If it's Google maps, wouldn't it still be considered googling since it used the same search engine?
In my case it's Apple Maps, but to the larger question, to me it's about the web search, which they have a custom algorithm and a monetary stake in gaming the results. You can certainly look at it differently, but "Googling" to answer questions is no longer useful the way it once was.
Under the "advanced" dropdown swap the search to 'verbatim' and that gets you like 80% back to the way Google used to work