You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago

[reconbot@toot.cafe]

@ocean literally the head of advertising got the head of search fired

[mistermaker@fosstodon.org]

@gsuberland @osman @seq @morgunkorn Pretty obvious that they kept the metric that keeps users on their website.
Also logical they are doing this. Now they are tuning it so it's just shit, but not shit enough that users will leave.

Important stuff like web search shouldn't be free.
I'm really eyeballing to get @kagihq it's a bit expensive atm.

[johnoestmannmusic@mastodon.social]

@ocean I was literally just wondering about this. Gemini works amazing compared to search, and so they could get users to embrace AI simply by making search worse

[petrichorsquirrel@meow.social]

@ocean I've noticed that whenever I use google, I instinctively ignore the first 5 results because I know they will not be what I want.

[lazysupper@famichiki.jp]

@ocean
#degoogle

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@delve @ocean At least with YouTube you can pay to get it ad-free. Google doesn’t have a way to pay to get actually good search results

[lisa0480@mastodon.social]

@ocean Glad I've already ditched Google in favour of Qwant

[joostvb@mastodon.green]

enshittification explained again

[christianschwaegerl@mastodon.social]

@xepia_ @morgunkorn @realhackhistory @ocean @hjoest thanks

[aryamiller@mastodon.social]

@ocean how to #degoogle? Could you recommend another browser to me? Ths.

[irina@wandering.shop]

@ocean "interact with more ads"? I don't think I've never interacted with any ads except right-click to block them.

[nzlemming@mastodon.nz]

@raktheundead @ocean It appears their "code yellow" has left them in the code brown.

[lacraia@mastodon.social]

@ocean 🤯

[raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest]

@ocean@raru.re
I'm shocked.
Shicked!
... Well, not that shocked...

[gothodile@furs.social]

@ocean so they did the grocery store thing on a technological level.

[cali@chaosfem.tw]

@ocean this … explains so much

[publictorsten@mastodon.social]

@ocean Source?

[misterstormwing@jorts.horse]

@ocean ladies and gentlemen, and those betwixt and/or in literally any dimensional relation to those, or no relation at all, THE PROFIT MOTIVE! It will fucking kill us all.

[staticr@guild.pmdcollab.org]

@ocean The ultimate endgame, the most effective way to play the advertising game is to trap all users in an inescapable maze of ads forever so they see as many ads as possible.

[thebratdragon@mastodon.scot]

@ocean not just google, all search engines return shit results, even if they try not to, because of infestations of advertising and misdirection markers at every turn.