they also ruined their own platform by creating and encouraging an entire business around gaming search results.
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suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
I abandoned Google when they started throwing shopping links at the top of every search, even when searching for things that have no relevance to shopping, and they started artificially promoting scams and paid material above actual results.
Google Search was best around 10-15 years ago when their only focus was providing the best results they could (remember when you could actually click the top result and you would be taken to the most applicable page instead of some unrelated ad or scam?). Now their focus is on providing the best product possible for their actual customers (paid advertisers) even when it means trashing their own product in the process.
sibachian@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
15+ years ago you could search for an error code, or an error message, or a part number and actually find it.