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> no company or product can grow alongside the internet forever without, eventually, being swallowed up.

Even not Google. I wonder if they can still turn things around, but I have the feeling MS caught up finally at high speed and passed them.

PS I was reading (sceptically) 'google search is broken' already for a year or so in HN comments and have to admit I believe it now.

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> PS I was reading (sceptically) 'google search is broken' already for a year or so in HN comments and have to admit I believe it now.

Even ignoring results, mainstream started to notice a while ago. Perhaps the biggest social proof at large is when it is shown distilled as comedy and people can laugh about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT7_SxJ3oSI

The "mainstream" accepts many claims as true that can be objectively demonstrated to be false. Why should I have such confidence they're right about a theory like this that seems to be unfalsifiable?

Did you watch the video, or is this a rhetorical response? Spoiler: it's about the conflict of interests in google search.

First, results got worse. Then, ads’ started to increase. Then I moved to Kagi. Now, I’m happy.

He he, can't resist reposting my recent comment from another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37606618

Also, searching for that quote on HN via Algolia gives many hits.

I wrote about this back in 2015 or 2016, with specific examples that people are just now complaining about vocally (mainly the lack of respecting search keywords): https://neosmart.net/blog/on-the-growing-intentional-useless...

Easily for more than "a year or so".

Probably more like 10 or 15 years or so

Right, but I wasn't sure of the number, or even the range, so didn't say that.

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