Mastodawn

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose

@ocean
if anyone else wanted to read the rest of the artaicle, the screenshot is from the following article:
https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/

A study finds Google’s search quality is declining—possibly by design—just as a court rules the tech giant maintained an illegal search monopoly.

The Journal Record

@postie @ocean did you find a link to the court documents

@tbodt , perhaps you'd be interested in https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zgpojydmzvd/GOOGLE%20ruling.pdf ?
but the above screenshot and source article are not covering a specific lawsuit, but rather reporting on a study published by "WalletHub" (link is in the previously linked article)