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Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Post by amatecha »

CSMastermind wrote: post #19

I'm old enough to remember when a big selling point of Google was that it didn't do this.

Had to dig up this link, 1999 review[0]:

"Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit."

[0] https://i.redd.it/uea6u7c4oje31.jpg

Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Post by ares623 »

freediver wrote: post #7

They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter. We built our entire company for that 1%.

How is Kagi for non-US folks? I've tried switching to DDG a while back but the experience for me, living outside the US, was not great. Sure, programming related searches were pretty good, but everything else was not.

Does Kagi have a better localized experience?

Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Post by svat »

For what it's worth, when you view a Google search results page, part of the page is populated by ads (results come from the Google Ads teams) and part of it by search results (results come from the Google Search team, and unaffected by anything to do with ads).

The post points out a problem with the fraction that is allocated to Ads, but pretty sure that's not "everything that's wrong with Google Search" (if true, it would actually be an endorsement of the quality of the organic search results, which I doubt is the intent).

Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Post by tinyhouse »

I don't have a problem with this in general, I do have a problem when they deceive users, which happens often. If I search for Amazon and get Temu ad - that's OK. But often when I search for X they will show sponsored results that pretend to be that X. This is esp true with apps on their play store, which is something fairly new. I barely use Google Search these days so don't know how bad it is with search.

This is a pattern you see often. A product gets to a point where it's hard to grow revenue as the market expects, so the company does everything they can to squeeze more revenue.

Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Post by junipertea »

Mistletoe wrote: post #28
freediver wrote: post #7

They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter. We built our entire company for that 1%.

How will you fight the inevitable slide that happens if you ever got on top? I’m convinced Google started with the absolute best of intentions before the money and greed turned them into a horror movie villain.

Maybe another company will take over at time. Why does one company have to stay perfect and on top of game for eternity?

Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Post by [deleted] »

Mistletoe wrote: post #28
freediver wrote: post #7

They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter. We built our entire company for that 1%.

How will you fight the inevitable slide that happens if you ever got on top? I’m convinced Google started with the absolute best of intentions before the money and greed turned them into a horror movie villain.

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Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Post by socalgal2 »

At least it was on the first page. I just searched for Midjourney on the iPhone App Store. It put 2 other results first. Each result is about 2/3rds the height of the screen meaning the actual "midjourney" result was a screen and a half down, so off the screen.

Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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Post by hwc »

amatecha wrote: post #31
CSMastermind wrote: post #19

I'm old enough to remember when a big selling point of Google was that it didn't do this.

Had to dig up this link, 1999 review[0]: "Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit." [0] https://i.redd.it/uea6u7c4oje31.jpg

How did they make any money at all without ads?
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