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That’s an extreme claim that requires some backing evidence. Mobile search quality is the main metric google uses to judge its search products. The idea that google search is “unusable on mobile” is pretty silly, if you’re literally the only person who ever noticed.

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I also don't understand why more people aren't making a firestorm over how user-hostile Google search is at times. They don't even follow their own rules. The "People also searched for" popup causes layout shifts nearly every time you go back to the search page. It's infuriating.

I know this is only orthogonal to AMP, but it sounds like the kind of thing Core Web Vitals was meant to disincentivize.

> The "People also searched for" popup causes layout shifts nearly every time you go back to the search page

I've also noticed that particular bit of irony. In fact it's the longest-running CLS issue I've seen anywhere.

When Google first announced their metrics, people showed how most Google sites failed pretty hard.

You probably did what I did and mostly missed what was happening the past couple years by using duckduckgo the whole time. I formatted my phone at some point last year and the search engine reverted to google, it really was unusable but not something people who wouldn't know better would get too upset about.

(by last year I mean 2019.)

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