What Happened to My Search Engine?
Universal search was the beginning of the troubles for google. Google used the massive power of their main search to knock competitor experiences and displace them. Yelp didnt stand a chance when Google indexed their results there.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • The Past, Present, and Future of Search
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Dmitri Brereton (dkb) • Google Search Is Dying
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?”.
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Sari Azout • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
Part of Google's perceived aura (IMHO) when they started was that they seemed to be like the nebulous group of pre-Web Internet-savvy techies. Which were a smart group, tending towards altruistic and egalitarian, and wanting to bring Internet goodness to people, and onboard people into Internet culture. What seemed like one sign of this was times t... See more
Are there any places today that are like Google in the early days? I would love ... | Hacker News
We no longer search for information. Instead, we google. And as we increasingly rely on Google for answers, so our ability to search for information by ourselves diminishes. Already today, “truth” is defined by the top results of the Google search.