Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
When did it get this bad?
Bad? Google just proved that they can get you to stay on their search page (or come back to get a different answer) for way longer than you need… this is a WIN for them.
The enshittification of the internet + the greed inherent in these mega corps have caused websites to be designed to grab steal your attention for as long as possible. The longer they can keep you on their site, the more money/data/attention/time they can get out of you.
If search was designed to benefit the user, a typical visit would result in maybe 5-10 seconds of someone’s time to enter a search and click on the relevant result. You proved that when you compared it to DDG 😀
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah except OP already said they don’t use Google anymore, presumably because they got fed up with it. As the expression goes, pigs get rich and hogs get slaughtered. If Google has bogged down the web search experience so much that people are defecting then they’ve gone too far.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Believe me, Google does enough a/b testing, and has enough experience in psychological manipulation to know where “the line” is for most people.
Sure, some will never use their product(s) again when pushed too far, but they don’t really need everyone to be using their products.
Only the users they can profit from the most are of value. If a terrible UI, awful UX, or even a paid subscription doesn’t scare them away from using a Google Product, then each of those users becomes a cash cow.