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Re:Google search is becoming one of those dying malls by uejfiweun on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:59PM (#33339649)
My personal anecdote is that nobody outside of the tech bubble actually thinks Google Search is dying. People mostly use it to find restaurants, events, basic information, and to navigate to specific webpages, and it works just fine for those purposes.
Re:Google search is becoming one of those dying malls by walterbell on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:35AM (#33339862)
That sounds like wikipedia, some vertical directory/review sites and a browser address bar for navigation to known destinations, rather than near-magical exploratory "full text search of millions of websites a.k.a. The World Wide Web".

Previously (1500+ comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

Re:Google search is becoming one of those dying malls by alephu5 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @01:52AM (#33340272)
We're just more sensitive to these things, if the decline continues more people will notice.
Re:Google search is becoming one of those dying malls by MJsGlove on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:35PM (#33351930)
For now it does. It’s entirely possible that this is the begging of a slow decline that will become noticed with time. 5 years ago I’d probably say it was crazy to say this, but the google/FB ad duopoly is showing (small) signs of cracking