• TinyPuni (she/her) @lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Google. It was once a good search engine. Now I find myself getting only the most irrelevant results based on my keywords and more often than not an advanced search turns up nothing of value

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      60 minutes ago

      Corey Doctorow’s podcast Understood: Who broke the internet? does an amazing job of explaining this. It’s only like 5 episodes and worth everyone’s time.

        • Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 hour ago

          They had a reason; money. It’s always about money. The worse the results, the more time you have to spend searching for what you want, the more revenue they can generate.

          You can usually trace all decisions a company makes, good or bad, back to money.