2025-05-11 19:00 UTC
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@wasabi@raru.re 2025-05-11 19:03
@ocean WHO COULD'VE GUESSED (literally everyone)
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@raktheundead@vmst.io 2025-05-11 19:33
@ocean: Ed Zitron wrote comprehensively on the people responsible. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
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@alanthecampbell@techhub.social 2025-05-11 19:39
@ocean bunch...of...f**kers.
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@itamarst@hachyderm.io 2025-05-11 19:42
@ocean As predicted by Brin and Page: "we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers." (The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998 - http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html)
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@samuel@libremercs.dev 2025-05-11 19:42
@ocean Just as expected, Google the company who abandoned "don't be evil", is evil. By the way can you link the source?
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@ity@estradiol.city 2025-05-11 19:53
@ocean figured It was still somewhat usable a few years ago but it really stopped being usable around the AI boom, like, whenever it was that M$ bought OpenAI is around even I started noticing Google search results no longer being competent anymore It's a wild choice, does Google think that folks won't stop using it ?
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@postie@possum.city 2025-05-11 20:11
@ocean@raru.re if anyone else wanted to read the rest of the artaicle, the screenshot is from the following article: https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/
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@Mikal@sfba.social 2025-05-11 20:28
@ocean@raru.re Ha! Knew it! Not long ago I pointed out to someone that in a way, worse search results meant more time scrolling and ergo more ad impressions, so it wouldn't at all surprise me if they quit bothering to improve. Fuckers. I'd assumed a sort of passive acceptance and laziness had led to degraded quality, but the fact that it was actually designed that way means there should be a "recall" of their product and they need to compensate me for all the wasted time before I finally gave up and went to DDG (which, IMO, has dropped significantly in quality since I started using it 🤔 ). Thing is, look at ANY online business that makes money off of ad impressions and there is an immediately obvious incentive to find ways to increase your scrolling time on the site. Not all are scummy grifters, of course, but when the incentive is there, someone is going to take advantage of it.