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Why is 2024 Google so widely despised that there's such an appetite for seeing it humiliated?

• pjmlp 2y ago
  Because we remember how Google was when Yahoo, Altavista, Ask Jeeves! ruled.
  • gundmc 2y ago
    But do you remember how the Internet was when Yahoo, Altavista, and Ask Jeeves! ruled? There's no going back to that, no matter how good your search algorithm is.
    • pjmlp 2y ago
      Compared with Google in 2024, I could actually find what I was looking for.
• nrb 2y ago
  Because now there is a galaxy-sized gulf between what users want and what Google wants. Google's stated mission was “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” but their actions over the last few years have served only to make search _less_ accessible and useful.
• beryilma 2y ago
  "Don't be evil" was it? We came a long way from that...
• prepend 2y ago
  I don’t want to humiliate google, I just want them to fix their stuff. I’m annoyed with them because they have poor, ad-infested search results and kill many products I liked (code, reader, froogle/shopping, blogger static sites, etc etc).
• stubish 2y ago
  It seems to be the steady state of the ad sponsored economy. Ads generate money. Outrage serves more ads. To maximize money, outrage is good, even if it attacks you. So you and your middlemen develop a thick skin and get on with making money, the more outrage the better, making you more money because it comes with your ads. Or you don't, make less money, and are eventually eaten by someone who does. See your tabloid TV, newspaper or magazines for citations.