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Is Google Dying? Or Did the Web Grow Up?
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Again, it’s important to emphasize that a.) Google understands better than anyone how important its search product is, strategically, to its business, and b.) Google employs a massive number of brilliant, dedicated, customer-obsessed employees that are focused on upholding and improving the quality of its search engine.
And yet, again, it’s difficul
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Here, too, we may spy another weakness. Though it remains the world’s search engine of choice, there’s a sense among many that Google’s product has degraded. Much of its deterioration seems purposeful, either as a way to extract more revenue or obstruct competitors.
Mario Gabriele • All the Answers | The Generalist
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Users have grown accustomed to tailoring their searches by platform for better results and more personalized answers: Amazon for products, Depop for secondhand clothing, Yelp for restaurants, YouTube for tutorials, Reddit for personal anecdotes. Where does that leave Google and the future of a centralized search engine?
Terry Nguyen • The Future of Search
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For most queries, Google search is pretty underwhelming these days. Google is great at answering questions with an objective answer, like “# of billionaires in the world” or “What is the population of Iceland”. It’s pretty bad at answering questions that require judgment and context like “What do NFT collectors think about NFTs?”.
The evidence is ev... See more
The evidence is ev... See more
Sari Azout • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
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I suspect billions of people will be happy to receive their answers to complicated queries directly on the search results page, uninterested in where the information comes from, so long as it’s accurate enough.
But to everyone who depended even a little bit on web search to have their business discovered, or their blog post read, or their journalism... See more
But to everyone who depended even a little bit on web search to have their business discovered, or their blog post read, or their journalism... See more