Why have most news sites either removed searching or severely hampered it's abilities since about 2016ish?

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PS. There's one news group that DOES allow it that has bought out some papers that were once owned by USA Today which have an AWFUL site UI and very broken search functions.

This new company only owns papers in the SW US and a few in the NE. It's called Digital First Media and this is what their search looks like and it's more or less what I grew up with in the early 00s. So if you type something in like 'Police Chase' you get tons of custom abilities here: https://www.orovillemr.com/?s=Police+chase&orderby=date&order=desc

Most sites not owned by this company have removed these features.