A long time ago, before SEO spam, I would Google parts of what I had written phrase by phrase (with proper nouns removed or generalized) and if the number of results was under a certain threshold, I'd assume I was wrong.
I found https://ludwig.guru to be a good replacement for that. But, yes, Google sucked a lot less back then & you even got relevant & longer search suggestions. Someone had to 'fix' that. Everything for the bottom line.
