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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago

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O ocean@raru.re

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
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triptilt@mastoart.social

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@ocean
source?
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@ocean Disgusting.
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O ocean@raru.re

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
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soc@chaos.social

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@ocean I wonder how many human lives this has cost, if one tallies up all the time wasted across humanity.
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O ocean@raru.re

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
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lmgenealogy@mstdn.ca

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@ocean I never use Google search (or Google anything, if I can help it). There's a reason they dropped the 'don't be evil'.
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Turns out that was on purpose
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noplasticshower@infosec.exchange

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@ocean that is more like assholification than enshitification
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O ocean@raru.re

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a_cubed@mastodon.social

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@ocean @lrhodes
Paging @pluralistic
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O ocean@raru.re

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cattail@mastodon.social

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@ocean I'm not surprised worse quality products affect usage. We see it with shrinkflation. I doubt people are dropping potato chips after they removed 5 chips
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@ocean That's why I now use duckduckgo. SO MUCH BETTER.
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mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org

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@Galamadryade @ocean that’s just Microsoft Bing in a trenchcoat.
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@Erebus_Amauro @ocean hm, they regularily still visit mine… hmyeah but much less…
Is Seznam good? Their fulltextrobot also shows up.
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Turns out that was on purpose
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alleyoop@mastodon.social

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@ocean Ugh. I am so fucking tired of being taken advantage of! Aren't you?
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O ocean@raru.re

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Turns out that was on purpose
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das_blaue_pony@mastodon.social

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@ocean
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K khleedril@cyberplace.social

@itamarst @ocean That was back when Google pledged, and did, no evil. Since then they've told us they are going to be evil.
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@khleedril @ocean They started adding advertising pretty early on, honestly, I think it's just amusing (and sad) to see the path they went down.
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O ocean@raru.re

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
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ehay2k@mastodon.social

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@ocean
Oh, @briankrebs
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I itamarst@hachyderm.io

@ocean As predicted by Brin and Page: "we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers." (The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998 - http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html)
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aarbrk@mstdn.mx

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@itamarst @ocean Great catch with this source! If only we had spent the interim setting up an alternative in the public interest. (Actually, is it too late?)
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O ocean@raru.re

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
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wampusmm@beige.party

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@ocean Wow, that’s despicable.
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O ocean@raru.re

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
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sheamuspatt@mstdn.ca

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@ocean
Classic #enshittification, as noted by @pluralistic

Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(pluralistic.net)
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@aetios now that it's proven true, you have to find a new conspiracy theory. Sorry, I don't make the rules
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O ocean@raru.re

@aetios Because Google is so synonymous with web search for Normies and they don't have any actual competition they can just do whatever and they won't lose users, knowing that, it just makes sense to keep users on your site longer and thus get served more ads
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catswhocode@twoot.site

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@ocean not surprising.
Thankfully I rarely use them! @aetios
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radioazureus@mastodon.social

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@ocean
DuckDuckGo is smooth sailing in searches
@nixCraft
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@ocean This is really strange. Do people who notice it has gotten even worse than Bing stay on Google anyway? Or do that few people notice?
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