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> So as far as I can see it's definitely in Google's interest to provide good and useful search results. A shame Google didn't get this memo, or buried it some

• JohnBooty 5y ago
  It's so fundamental to their business though, right? They are fundamentally a data mining and advertising operation and that only works if people find them useful and therefore use them so that they can be data-mined and advertised to. I guess maybe Google just feels it's an unsolvable problem, or has a backdoor agreement with Amazon, or feels they are so synonymous with search that only a fraction of users would ever user another search engine even if the quality of their results has become awful
  • WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
    How many hairs do you need to remove from a man's head before you can call him bald? Many chain restaurants follow this scheme: when they appear and need to make a good name for themselves, they are hell bent on the quality of food and the the customer experience. It's important for them to get the word of mouth marketing. But after they establish themselves firmly and start to grow, the bottom line becomes a priority, and they start cutting corners ever so slightly. The portions become smaller but the prices hike up. They start skimping on sauces. One day you discover that the garlic sauce is no longer made in house, but is of the same variety that is purchased in bulk for hot dogs at gas stations. But the momentum is still going. And many other chains in the same price range either don't make the same kind of food, or are worse still. So you have no choice until a new restaurant starts that needs to carve a niche and beat it's competition.
• gundmc 5y ago
  It's almost as if it's a really hard problem to solve.