Google Groups should have this, but search in Groups is permanently broken. Search, you know, Googles main domain.

If enough legit and important articles linked to it , it would be at the top.

And what decides if a article is "legit and important"? If some other legit and important article links to it, of course!

And so we continue, until only the bottom-feeding "high quality" is left at the top of the search result, which is generally boring but "correct" content.

If that were true there wouldn't be so much bullshit on the first few pages. Try doing a Google search that gets lots of low-effort ad-stuffed "top x" or "best x of 2019" lists or similar garbage and changing the date range to limit results to before 2008 or thereabouts. It's incredible how much more useful, and easier to quickly evaluate, the results often are.

Only if your bullshit meter was an objective meter. It's subjective. Links to a page is at least objective.