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
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
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.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
You think engineers are in charge and making the money?
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That first video was great. Subbed
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
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.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Yes, but also: the web has become worse lately. All the search engines seem to be suffering.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Hmmm I wonder what the alternative is I wonder hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
i am not really sure what you mean with alternative?
I mean the web has become worse because of AI
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why not actually say the alternatives??
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Smugly smirks in Kagi
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 week ago
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.