Obviously when users start bailing, the best answer is to make the service worse and worse for those who remain to make up the difference.
standard enshittification pipeline, isn’t it?
Actually? Yeah. Most people don’t use that word correctly, but this fits.
What’s the chance the will introduce Google Classic™ with actual useful results?
I think the trouble is “users” is at best a secondary metric for these companies nowadays. Why turn the experience knob when the price-per-whatever knob still has room left?
Duckduckgonoai works fine for me for general searches.
More ads. That will fix the issue.
https://google.com/search?udm=14&q=%25s
I still think old Google gives me the best results, so I set my browser’s default search it this.
When combined with ublock - It gives no suggestions, no ads, no LLM slop. Just plain results like the old days.
Eventually they’ll get rid of it, but for now. It works great.
