> Google, by thinking so short term, has knee-capped any developer and engineering good will for their platforms. I can't see that hurting their already-establ

> Google, by thinking so short term, has knee-capped any developer and engineering good will for their platforms. I can't see that hurting their already-established products, but I'm seeing even non-technical users get increasingly gun-shy about adopting new Google products. > At this point, their results are such a trash fire it can't be that hard. So far, the other search platforms seem to be even more of a trash fire. (Obviously, this is subjective.) The thing is, search gets harder every day: The number of bad actors polluting search grows. It's not fair to claim that declining search quality is proof that Google as an organization is declining in competence.