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Re:Googling Is for Old People. That's a Problem for Google by OutOfHere on Saturday November 30, 2024 @07:32AM (#42281211)
Google Search, like Yahoo Search before it, is on its way out of common use, and nothing will stop this tide. I give it ten years, so by 2035, until it becomes a distant memory.
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Re:Googling Is for Old People. That's a Problem for Google by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Saturday November 30, 2024 @08:48AM (#42281609)
I mean, it didn't have to be this way. But they decided to go with the enshittification route so why would younger people use it if it ain't that good anymore?

Technologies that stay useful keep getting used, generation after generation. We still use spoons for soup. We've had refrigerators in houses since they became available. There are no "Millennials aren't buying refrigerators and don't like spoons" articles in the new york times. Its because these still work and work well for their purpose.

If they just made google work well for search and kept it working well, there would be no shift in use.

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