Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything?
Goodie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s on purpose.
You spend longer IN Google, so you see more Google ads, on a Google platform, so Google gets a bigger cut of the pie.
It’s the same reason Google started summarizing Wikipedia (or other highly rated results) on its search results where possible. Why they built basic functionality (timers etc) into their search engine.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What I’ve noticed with the summarizing is that it’ll pull a quote that says something close to the search term. When in context of the article the quote is a rhetorical question and often goes on to say, “No, actually the opposite is true.”. Of course the second part of the sentence is left out of the summary.
Wild shit!