Ask HN: What's Going on with Google?

Posted by encodedrose on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:35PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Court documents [2], Twitter posts [1], HN posts[3]...?

[1] ads team begging for worse search results so that the ads team can hit their goals this year - https://twitter.com/pdrmnvd/status/1707395736458207430/photo/1

[2] https://ia804605.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.631.0.pdf

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37698473

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Re:Ask HN: What's Going on with Google? by dylan604 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:17PM (#37698922)

What's the point of the question? It's a huge company doing what huge companies with no soul do. Just like in the 80s when SMU go the death sentence. The only thing different from everyone else is they got caught.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Going on with Google? by hattmall on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:17PM (#37698924)

I don't know, but holy shit they suck. I get like 8 results for searches most of the time with the top 4 being far off from my query but have something to do with a related word. The middle 2 might contain 1 word of my query but be from a news site. The bottom two are weird completely unrelated spam.... and that's it. No second page, no more results. And that's for thing I know I've seen online before. It's insane.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Going on with Google? by brucethemoose2 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:20PM (#37698944)

[1] is just good old quarterly-targets-at-all-costs. This has been destroying productive companies for decades, though it does seem remarkable at Google's scale.

[2] and [3] seem to just be incompetence finding documents.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Going on with Google? by jiveturkey on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:01AM (#37699459)

Just normal stuff.

There's a term for it. It's called enshittification.

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