Post #1028620
2025-05-11 19:00 UTC
Replies (17)
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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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@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be 2025-05-11 19:39
@ocean@raru.re i'm not surprised, but i didn't noticed since i use alternatives from google since a long time :ablobcatwink:
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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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@wonka@chaos.social 2025-05-11 19:42
@ocean If that is not enshittification as defined by @pluralistic...
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@zakalwe@plasmatrap.com 2025-05-11 19:49
@ocean@raru.re Active enshittification.
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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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@cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com 2025-05-11 19:54
@ocean reinforcing what a lot of people have been saying: Google is an advertisement company. (do you have the link to the full text, please?)
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@Paradox@raru.re 2025-05-11 20:03
@ocean I need to understand what people are searching for and why the first page doesn't help them. Cuz the only time I can't find something is because I don't really expect to find anything. Either cuz it's a very niche question or earlier when I tried to get a pdf/ebook of Harold and the Purple Crayon (still copyrighted I think, no straightforward download). Like I believe people are having a hard time. I just can't tell from my experience.
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@kkarhan@infosec.space 2025-05-11 20:07
@ocean TF2 Heavy Voice "Not big surprise!"
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@christianschwaegerl@mastodon.social 2025-05-11 20:09
@ocean @hjoest Would be great if you could add the link to the source, thanks
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@em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social 2025-05-11 20:11
@ocean I learned about this strategy back in the early 2010’s which has made me more deliberate when I put in any searches. At the time I was shocked (I was a teenager then)but I quickly learned how to work around the system. I remember when searching had to be only a couple words at most to work, but now you can use whole phrases, this helps a lot with being more specific about what I want. But yes, it’s sad it’s a marketing strategy to keep people searching instead of “finding what you want”
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@Legion495@mk.absturztau.be 2025-05-11 20:11
@ocean@raru.re I gave up on Google Search like 2 years ago. I am not surprised. Still fond of the memories when you immediately found what you looked for.
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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.