This is one topic I’m quite willing to go into conspiracy theory territory on, because Google have a lot of very clever engineers and must surely know that their search is dogshit.
The only plausible explanation is that they’re somehow making more money doing this than they did by being quietly competent.
Not even a conspiracy theory, really. They hired the head of search over at Yahoo (?!!) and he had the explicit mandate to make search more profitable.
They know it’s trash. But searching multiple times and weeding through dogshit, you spend more time on their site looking at ads, unless you use ublock, then it’s just annoying to the user.
Quite obvious even before I’ve read favoredponcho’s comment. Just scraping web to deliver context matching results brings no money. Ads bring money. Case solved
That’s not a conspiracy. It’s been confirmed. The head of ads forced the search team to make search worse so people would search more and see more ads. There is no reason to use google search, they want it to suck.
This is one topic I’m quite willing to go into conspiracy theory territory on, because Google have a lot of very clever engineers and must surely know that their search is dogshit.
The only plausible explanation is that they’re somehow making more money doing this than they did by being quietly competent.
You think engineers are in charge and making the money?
Not even a conspiracy theory, really. They hired the head of search over at Yahoo (?!!) and he had the explicit mandate to make search more profitable.
They know it’s trash. But searching multiple times and weeding through dogshit, you spend more time on their site looking at ads, unless you use ublock, then it’s just annoying to the user.
https://youtu.be/4wCGVrAn4qY
https://youtu.be/5c3AJb53Xos
That first video was great. Subbed
Quite obvious even before I’ve read favoredponcho’s comment. Just scraping web to deliver context matching results brings no money. Ads bring money. Case solved
That’s not a conspiracy. It’s been confirmed. The head of ads forced the search team to make search worse so people would search more and see more ads. There is no reason to use google search, they want it to suck.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Yes, but also: the web has become worse lately. All the search engines seem to be suffering.
Smugly smirks in Kagi
some site, or words i was searching just last week showed up many results, for some reason it stopped showing the samre results. its showing less now.
Hmmm I wonder what the alternative is I wonder hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Why not actually say the alternatives??
AI
so you mean the alternative to bad searchresults inevitably is AI for the vast majority of people. hence AI prevalence
i am not really sure what you mean with alternative?
I mean the web has become worse because of AI