It's the top search engine by a large margin and generates tens of billions of revenue.
You can't declare something dead just because you notice a decline in it.
Ask HN: Is Google Dead?
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#33Still using Google Workspace in our company to collaborate and send/receive emails, still using Google Maps for recommendations and routes, still using a Google phone. I guess the answer is no.
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#34I don't get it. People around me have been saying Google is shit for years now but I can't see it. I still reach for google for any minor query, and it's super responsive and it's super helpful. Yes of course I am aware that for certain queries you get a lot of results that have manipulated their way to the top. I just think I have a very good natural bullshit-filter.
That's great for you, but we used to not need as much bullshit-filter. Why does Google make me wade through easily filterable bullshit when it used to put the right results at the top?
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#35I don't get it. People around me have been saying Google is shit for years now but I can't see it. I still reach for google for any minor query, and it's super responsive and it's super helpful. Yes of course I am aware that for certain queries you get a lot of results that have manipulated their way to the top. I just think I have a very good natural bullshit-filter.
I don’t like the company and stopped using Google search over 5 years ago. I don’t miss it or even notice its absence. I have to remind myself Google is a massive part of many people’s experience of the internet.
Which company is better?
When it comes to that level of data and maturity I think there is no valid competition.
I've consciously made the decision that I don't care what Google does with my data. They're going to attempt to track me regardless of if I use their services or not. I have friends who live off grid to get away from internet tracking but I don't envy their lifestyle.
So I think like most conscious people we just make the decision to willingly hand over whatever data we might be leaking to these companies, just for the convenience. Life is short, and filled with enough suffering, I don't need to inflict it upon myself in my daily routines.
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#37Reddit has the worst search functionality. Drives me mad. I use google to search for reddit content. If reddit search improves google will lose it's value even more.
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#38They completely lost the plot. Google search went from great to terrible to Ryanair check-in experience within a few years. Now they just killed traffic to a lot of independent websites in favour of a hundred or so generic superwebsites‘ slop. The internet is turning into just a dozen websites at an alarming speed.
I think in the future we will have to spend more time on forums again to find what we need.
I have taken an electronic music hobby recently and the small forum where users of my instrument congregate has been a refreshing throwback to the early 2000's, making me realize how much I had missed a sense of community on the megasites.
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#39Definitely at the end of maturity, IMO
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#40Google isn't dead because it still has a massive user base, generating more money than ever. Many people think Google is the internet, and Android and Chrome users have Google as their default search engine. Google even pays Apple billions to be the default on their devices. So from a business perspective, Google is thriving and will continue to do so for years. However, the quality of Google's search results has dec…
> Google isn't dead because it still has a massive user base, generating more money than ever.
Do you remember when iPhone was introduced and Nokia/Symbian was still the king?
This is exactly the reasoning line that Symbian/Nokia devs kept repeating when iPhone was released. I remember arguing with them endlessly. It took around 4 years for the company to collapse completely.