You can't find anything useful with Google anyway. It's about as reliable as Amazon search. On Amazon you'll find a lot of faux-branded trash that is very spec

You can't find anything useful with Google anyway. It's about as reliable as Amazon search. On Amazon you'll find a lot of faux-branded trash that is very specifically and very blatantly designed to resemble what you're looking for (if you're a pensioner or perhaps a dog) but the result you were actually looking for will be on page 2 or in a thread on a forum. Or not listed at all. Similar story for Google Search, you don't find anything useful, you find a dozen results that have been designed to look like they'll be useful. Why use Google then? Half the "quick answers" results are wrong or based on unreliable sources, but presented as fact. Google Images being peppered with shopping results is annoying as eating glass. Google Shopping has never been useful because it just sends you to expired eBay listings or websites you wouldn't necessarily trust with your lawnmower let alone your card details. And then there's YouTube — what a cesspool! There's only one view that matters there, your subscriptions. The feed/trending is just a torrent of genuinely crazy conspiracy/disinformation stuff that is obviously very popular... but I think if I ran, say, a library, I wouldn't fill the shelves with books about how to make guns and explosives, nor would I fill the racks with pornography. I'd stock such things but The common feature is that the drive for profit = drive for views/clicks = skews all content moderation and indeed content creation towards that goal. All art, wit, originality, truth is sucked into this vortex and spat out the other side as something "eye-catching" "clickbaity" "engaging" etc This is true of Facebook, Twitter, you name it. Anything based on user engagement, clicks, ad views/interactions — all of that horseshit. It's all simply twisting content to suit the business rather than doing what's in the best interest of the user. The user deserves accurate search results, impartial presentation of data and points of view, no dark patterns. It frankly amazes me that we've gotten as far down this road as we have, in the last decade especially. It's nauseating.