Ask HN: Is Google search team being sabotaged?

by nothrowaways on 10/15/2023, 8:05 PM with 6 comments

Or is it just me?

I feel that search results in Google are being deliberately annoying.

  • by mikewarot on 10/15/2023, 8:59 PM

    It's the incentive structures at play that are forcing the continually worsening of search quality. It doesn't matter what their immediate management wants, what the shareholders want seems to be more profit this quarter, and higher stock prices.

  • by stathibus on 10/16/2023, 1:08 AM

    If it was just search that was broken and needed fixing, then a competitor would have stomped google search into the dust already. The reality is that the internet itself is now 99.99% shit thanks to the SEO insanity that Google created.

  • by speedgoose on 10/15/2023, 8:43 PM

    It’s called the SEO industry.

  • by Chyzwar on 10/16/2023, 9:29 PM

    Google metrics for successful search are about making more money from ads not if an individual finds an answer.