Yeah it's really horrible. I can't imagine what ridiculous metrics they're using internally to justify the changes. Well I'm sure some of them are "optimize the

Yeah it's really horrible. I can't imagine what ridiculous metrics they're using internally to justify the changes. Well I'm sure some of them are "optimize the algorithm for profits"... but surely the fact that people are giving up on Google entirely as a result shows up in the data also? Or maybe it's just that the arms race against SEO has been temporarily lost. I can't remember the last time a google search gave a useful result, outside of appending "reddit" to the answer so that the result is (probably) written by a human instead of bs blogspam. And I'm sure that won't work for long either.