The Verge shows how Google search is useless

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The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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The demise of google search is by design. https://www.techspot.com/news/102765-who-prabhakar-raghavan-why-accused-killing-google-search.html TL;DR. Management noted that search revenue was not growing, so the head of google search Prabhakar Raghavan made it worse so you have to click more to get what you want. More clicks = more money = growth = happy investors = enshitification. Fuck you Prabhakar Raghavan.

Zitron, though, describes him as "a computer scientist class traitor who sided with the management consultancy sect."

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And by making the search engine worse and worse, they open the opportunity to bring AI chat as a "savior", and people will think it revolutionized internet search.