News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Every Google result now looks like an ad. Parent comment

Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by jansan on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:30AM (#22114895)
Google gave us a lot, but that does not mean they should not be criticized. Without emotion I can say that using Google is far worse today than it was in the early 2000s. Besides delivering the results in a much more readable format, at that time we were able to search specifically in forums and there were a lot of advanced features like "linkto:" that are not supported anymore.

The problem I see is that Google does not care about us Geeks anymore. They are 100% focused on consumers now, and that sucks a lot.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by goatinaboat on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:59AM (#22116099)
They are 100% focused on consumers now, and that sucks a lot.

Focused on exploiting consumers, that is. Consumers are the livestock in Google’s factory farm. They are actively hostile to end users now.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by mekster on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:14PM (#22120929)
Criticizing is fine, sure but calling them they ruined the web? A bit stretched?
[ Parent | on HN ]