For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

  • Stuttgart273@lemmy.one
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    8 months ago

    The dangers of a monopoly. No matter how bad Google gets people will still use it because, in many people’s minds, there is no other search engine.

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      8 months ago

      eh, ddg is equally bad with it insisting it knows better than me what my query is and “fixing” it, leaving me to have to either fix it or click a link telling it “yes I really did want to search for that and not what you assumed”