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RockRaven

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3. Google, as we knew it, was over and changed quite a while ago, before AI.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 03:24 PM

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Google purposely ruined search years ago (~2020) because making search worse was the only way to "make number go up." Once they had a virtual monopoly on search (like 80+%) they could not continue growing at the desired rates by adding users, there were no more users to add by capturing more market share. So they had to make search lousier so that a user would have to search more times, more different phrases, to find what they were looking for. This degradation of search quality was done on purpose. And it was done after they took the guy who was head of ads and installed him as head of search.

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Google Search as you know it is over [View all] highplainsdem Tuesday OP

Everything you said, plus ai heats up our planet and uses up our water questionseverything Tuesday #1

Crap... Bayard Tuesday #2

I've been using Startpage for a couple years. Make7 Tuesday #8

Well I've been looking for ways to ditch Google for a long time. 1WorldHope Tuesday #10

Google, as we knew it, was over and changed quite a while ago, before AI. RockRaven Tuesday #3

Same here. It's been over for me for years now mdbl Tuesday #4

Brave and DuckDuckGo are much more secure than Google. summer_in_TX Tuesday #5

Will Bunch: Soon there'll be no new information to train AI on anything that happened after 2026 highplainsdem Tuesday #6

The usual acronym ETTD should be edited slightlv Tuesday #7

Remember the "World Wide Web"? I think back to the 1990s as the days of the Wild West FakeNoose 22 hrs ago #19

I've gotten in the habit of using the verb 'google' instead of 'search'. I'm trying to break out of that. Since I'm not eppur_se_muova Tuesday #9

Fuck all AI until/unless that shit is HEAVILY regulated...something that sure as hell isn't happening under fascism. Karasu Tuesday #11

There are many things a Google search will not find. BidenRocks Tuesday #12

Google anything ... any search term ... then type "-AI" after the term FakeNoose Tuesday #13

I do that (when I remember) but you still get AI content too. BlueSpot Tuesday #14

+1 dalton99a Yesterday #16

So basically the era of links is over Diraven Yesterday #15

It was fun while it lasted. hunter Yesterday #17

Cory Doctrow made a word for this:"enshitification". nt Shipwack Yesterday #18