Sycophant?

I think you mean SafeSearch > off.

Yes, you would pretty much be guaranteed to get a helping of porn no matter what.

same kind of search results as you always have.

Funny, I don’t remember getting top news stories, preview links for videos, or images when I did a Google search in the early 2000s…

Analogous. Which the above commenter just explained why it isnt.

Nope. The amount of data required for constant recording and streaming of audio would be ridiculous and would show up in analysis.

The simpler answer is that the algorithms are getting scary good.