zetabeta

pluralistic , 4 months ago to random

A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google - which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic - suddenly turned into a pile of shit.

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zetabeta , 4 months ago

@pluralistic
google starts to be android and google-account company now. collects data everywhere and shows ads. search start to be secondary, although good place to show ads.