> Do they not have self respect seeing the bad quality product they’re throwing up on billions of people every day?

In the society I live in, self-respect doesn't pay the bills. I don't know where you're from.

If you would like to contend that the people at Google couldn't pay their bills if they had kept search more effective, I would like to see some serious numbers there.

Absent that, it sounds like the sort of excuse greedy people have always used to justify profitable harm.

Can't pay your bills without a job... They are constantly A/B testing things and running competitive teams. If profitability is the goal and you aren't the most profitable you can be on the table for the next round of layoffs.

People without a job can't pay their bills. I think it's pretty straightforward.

A Google engineer doesn't need to worry about paying bills unless their family has an incredibly expensive illness, they can switch jobs easily.

I have no idea how search rankings work, but GeeksForGeeks is massively popular in Indian tech colleges. This might be a reason for it’s high rank.

> Do programmers in Google not use Google to search questions?

Not really. Google has an excellent intranet search engine and mostly relies on in-house tools instead of commercial services (see https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg). As a result its employees don't really need to rely on Stack Overflow, etc.