Back in my day
BlueSky Post. [https://bsky.app/profile/kevinhearne.bsky.social/post/3kjnofkjvyf2j] ::: spoiler Transcript. If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know. old guy takes long hit on the bong “Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.” :::
Google was a “disrupter”
Which means they burnt investor money for years to deliver a great product while not making any profit.
Once they gain market share and are the default, enshitification begins and people eventually wonder why they’re still using it.
Except that I wouldn’t use Google Search as an example of enshittification.
It isn’t like Google tried to break search to increase profits. Instead, the industry around Google changed to adapt to Google’s search algorithms.
I feel like they did break search to profit, though possibly through inaction. It doesn’t feel like they’re even trying to deliver good content over seo garbage anymore.
Hard to distinguish malice from incompetence with Google, though.
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