> I swear someone in Google's exec team is going out of their way to make Google products suck. This may be closer to the truth than many people think. In an a

> I swear someone in Google's exec team is going out of their way to make Google products suck. This may be closer to the truth than many people think. In an analysis from 3 months ago [1,2] it was alleged that Google search sucks so badly not just because of AI and whatnot, but because control of the search division was finally handed to the revenue people in 2019, who promptly rolled back important spam filtering in an effort to drive up searches. Deliberate use of dark patterns to increase "user engagement" is nothing new, of course, but I was still surprised that Google would sink this low. Don't be evil, bwa-ha-ha-ha. [1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ [2] HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976