• ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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    1 year ago

    Excellent article! Very interesting read and I really hope this case leads to Google being split up. Google search is completely useless these days but I get why we see so few true alternatives, Google is just too big and eats up all possible revenue and running a search engine isn’t cheap.

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      1 year ago

      If it’s so useless, why do you keep using it? And why would you expect it to get better if Google is broken up?

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        1 year ago

        why would you expect it to get better if Google is broken up?
        Google has a massive conflict of interest; it both sells ads to SEO’ed websites, and ranks searches. Their incentive is for you to go to the pages with the most of their ads possible. Even a company with revenue purely from ads on the search page has less terrible incentives.

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        1 year ago

        It’s the best thing that can happen to Google. It’s a 3000 megaton ship that has lost its way. It has hands in a dozen industries and is mediocre at all, only floating through its own sheer bloat.

        A trimmed down Google would bring actual innovation.