> But the point – and my frustration with reporters who sometimes ask me this type of question – is that it’s clearly absurd. They themselves use Google all th

> But the point – and my frustration with reporters who sometimes ask me this type of question – is that it’s clearly absurd. They themselves use Google all the time to find things. Millions of people each day clearly find information that’s useful. And yet, I’ve repeatedly seen notable tech journalists with a straight-face share how you can’t find anything on Google, that it is useless and so on. Google isn't completely useless, but it has became extremely painful to use. There was a time when Google returned exactly what I needed, or said that there's no result. For the last 5 years or so, I have to manually filter the results and, back when pagination still existed, I went directly to page 2 on some searches to skip the first dozen SEO-filled results. So, sure, I keep finding useful results on Google, but only after having to navigate through a sea of SEO-optimized links. And yes, I still keep using Google for a third of my search because I have no better choice on these topics.