Comment on How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
xenomor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If accurate, this is a perfect example of the principle of ‘enshitification’ in action. That is, a good service or product becoming increasingly terrible as its development is continuously perverted by revenue related incentives.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Indeed, it has the hallmark feature of enshittification: screwing over one party (the users) to benefit another (the advertisers), followed by screwing over the second party as well. I’m sure no advertiser wants to waste their ad budget showing ads to people who haven’t indicated any interest in their product; if they wanted to spend their money that way, they’d have bought ads on the more generic search terms instead.