I'm a little bit skeptical about this notion that the ad model is fundamentally detrimental to the search results that Google gives you. It honestly doesn't eve

I'm a little bit skeptical about this notion that the ad model is fundamentally detrimental to the search results that Google gives you. It honestly doesn't even seem like it makes business sense. At the end of the day Google benefits from giving the most accurate results in the long term, and it's such a money printing engine I don't think they're degrading the search quality. Whenever I tried privacy-first or "non-ad" search engines, most recently duckduckgo, I found myself spamming !g a lot. It's nice to have an alternative obviously and I hope it's sustainable to have a paid search engine but it in some sense seems more like a lifestyle product to me.