this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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[–] Hupf@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe have google.com be a pure search engine and name the rest Google+

[–] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Eonandahalf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

In the o. And if you’re up to it you can DP both os.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Shhhh...we don't talk about Google+ anymore.

[–] really@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this an ad for Google?

Or some reviewer suggesting/imploring people to use google?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Back in 1999, Google was relatively new and not well known. It was the clean, blank search screen and highly relevant results that got me, whereas Yahoo, AOL, et al were messy.

Google was the OG tech version of giving people a high quality product to put all the competition out of business, then slowly start squeezing as much money from them as possible with complete disregard for product quality or user experience

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is only partly Google's fault. As soon as people caught onto how they were being discovered on Google, they began manipulating the algorithm in such a way that ruined it.

Then Google ruined it further by injecting all kinds of ads n shit.

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

We must sacrifice the Internet to The Almighty SEO.

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

The origin of enshittification

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

a lot can change in 20 years

[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

In internet times this is prehistoric though

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe it's because I'm using ublock but don't they still hold true to a lot of that?

[–] elauso@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

That's pretty much the point of ublock: Remove shit from pages so they have "no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter"