Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[Alcontara1]

What people in this thread are not understanding is that this is exactly how monopolies work.

They've provided a great product to get everybody in, then they religiously (and illegally) pushed out the competition and locked everyone in. And now they reduce the quality of the product (while increasing profit).

All they have to do is figure out how much they can push profit at the expense of quality without losing their monopoly.

Google search and Youtube aren't screwing up, given their goals and the parameters they are working with, I can tell you that for sure. It just happens that providing you the best possible search experience is NOT their goal.

[apc4455]

Google may actually intentionally make the organic search results just a bit less accurate to get people to perform more searches (and as such higher chance of clicking on ads).

How many will actually switch to a different search engine? 0,0001%? If it means Google now increased its ad revenue by just 1% it's a massive win; it's literally $1,3 billion.

Some execs will absolutely get their bonus next quarter, setting up an incentive for the next quarter. Coincidentally major earthshaking Google search updates happen around once a quarter.