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Is Google about to destroy the web? (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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mostly shit already. ymmv

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Google search engine has been shit for a decade or more. Wasn't there some document that it was made so by purpose, because there was no incentive to improve it becuse there was no real competition or the competition was just a front-end to google.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    2018-2019 is when they officially turned the corner and decided to focus only on ad revenue. But the SEO abuse dove it into the ground by 2014ish. They were making money enough to expand by orders of magnitude into other areas, so they simply didn't want to tweak their search or strategy and kill their golden goose that funded things like Good Drive and their shit social network and loon, etc.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

    I'm not a huge fan of Ed Zitron generally, he leans towards histrionic too much for my tastes, but he makes a compelling case here.

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