Google's search product and YouTube's algorithm have both been completely gutted for this need to control the sources and what people see down to being shadows

Google's search product and YouTube's algorithm have both been completely gutted for this need to control the sources and what people see down to being shadows of their former usefulness. Now we could say this is a good thing because there's less radicalization and what many consider misinformation. But I think the clear difference in usefulness wont result in those people not seeing that information but more an eventual move away from the Google services rendering the control useless because the next most viable services will likely be under Chinese control anyway. Yandex already offers a far superior image search to Google, Tiktok video search is preferred by young people over Google text search.