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1. rickdeckard · 1790071699 · focus · HN ↗

   Somehow a homemade problem for Google.

   I never asked them to waste additional resources by injecting my blunt keyword-query into an AI-cluster and guesstimate a well-formed article from that.

   But here I am, with (elder) relatives sending me Google search-results on topics like they are proper articles...

   1. JKCalhoun · 1790073763 · focus · HN ↗

      "Somehow a homemade problem for Google."

      Wow, I thought you were going to talk about selling ads and how that has made search shite.

      1. lelanthran · 1790074944 · focus · HN ↗

         Google always sold ads. Google weren't always shite, though.

         They, themselves, sorta proved that a good product could become dominant with ads and without being shite.

         1. JKCalhoun · 1790082865 · focus · HN ↗

            I'm allowing that there is a delay between selling ads and the rising tide of SEO enshitification that follows. Money is still at the root of the decline of the internet.

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