• @grue
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    6111 months ago

    The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.

    It’s not boggling; it’s very simple: they discovered that having shitty search apparently makes them more money than having good search.

    • @[email protected]
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      1911 months ago

      Bingo!

      Don’t Be Evil.

      It was obvious they would enshittify, they literally told us they would.

    • @Plopp
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      911 months ago

      I feel like maybe the term “search” when applied to digital services should be regulated. What Google et al do isn’t search, it’s recommendations. Recommendations can be useful, but they sure as hell don’t replace search. Someone call the EU.

      • @Num10ck
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        -311 months ago

        if they won’t regulate what ‘news’ or ‘organic’ or ‘private’ means then good luck with ‘search’. waiting for the government to get wise and save us, still?

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          “Organic” is absolutely a regulated term in the US, not sure about elsewhere. You might be thinking of “natural.”

        • @Plopp
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          311 months ago

          Which “the government”?