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  • @RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13•17 days ago

    a quick summary is that there might be evidence that Google favored increasing revenue from ads instead of user experience and functionality. The author gathers form of emails (not linked in the article) and the background of Google leadership.

    There, that’s most of it. The rest is a difficult read of a rant that’s not always coherent.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
      2•17 days ago

      favored increasing revenue from ads instead of user experience and functionality

      That just makes sense. Companies want to make their customers happy, and users aren’t Google’s customers

  • daddyjonesEnglish
    0•17 days ago

    I couldn’t be bothered to read all (or even much) much of this, but it really doesn’t feel like Google search is dead…