Submitted 4 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://blog.google/products/search/country-code-top-level-domains/
Google/Alphabet completed its transition into a full-on data/advertising company some years ago…
Since then, its products have become increasingly intrusive/useless/invasive/unserviceable,
Google no longer provides information, rather, they take it and give little to nothing in return.
Fuck Google. 🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕
it’s been an advertising company for decades
2000 is when they started the serp ads. that wasn’t ‘enough’ so they started selling ads on other sites launching adsense in 2003, which fueled their ipo 14 months later.
Still gonna suck and use AI bullshit for everything though, right??
I stopped using Google and moved to kagi haven’t looked back.
Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 4 days ago
That lie is so incredibly pathetic that even kindergarten brats could do better in some cases.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They said “useful,” they didn’t say “relevant.”
In this case, “useful” means “the most results we can get paid to show you without you going to a different website.”
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I’m really tired of this narrative. Far be it from me to defend a billion dollar company, but I’ve been using Google since its inception. For literally as long as its been available, and the issue people have with Google is that as a company they changed the way they do search over a decade ago, and people tend to not realize it.
Google went from returning information about “restaurants” when searched, because it was relevant to the search, to assuming you likely want to know what restaurants are in your area when you search for it. Therefore it pivoted from a relevancy based search engine to a contextual based search engine. Google attempts to interpret what you mean when searching for something and provides results rather than just throwing results at you simply because they’re relevant to the search terms used. And people are so fucking mad at them for trying to make search better.
Have they done a good job? Not really. Should they be literally crucified at the fucking cross for attempting to interpret results rather than just throw a bunch of shit at you and rely on the users technical ability to filter data? Not really…
Long story short, people need to take a fuckin’ chill pill when it comes at least to Google search results.