> arguably this only highlights how little confidence Google has in the quality of its search engine and the trustworthiness of the web as a source for information.
I think they are realizing they killed their golden goose by filling it with trash ads and it only worked in the absence of something more accessible to the public. They were drunk at the wheel and crashed into (for the first time ever) a competent competitor. Now they realize they need to sober up quickly but their organization is lazy and bloated, they’ve taken their users for granted and abused them at the altar of advertisers, and generally done nothing for two entire decades to garner any form of loyalty.
They’ve got some work cut out for them. From my perspective, Google could come out with a ChatGPT killer and I still wouldn’t use it, because the company has a track record of arbitrarily killing off any product I’ve actually liked.
I think they are realizing they killed their golden goose by filling it with trash ads and it only worked in the absence of something more accessible to the public. They were drunk at the wheel and crashed into (for the first time ever) a competent competitor. Now they realize they need to sober up quickly but their organization is lazy and bloated, they’ve taken their users for granted and abused them at the altar of advertisers, and generally done nothing for two entire decades to garner any form of loyalty.
They’ve got some work cut out for them. From my perspective, Google could come out with a ChatGPT killer and I still wouldn’t use it, because the company has a track record of arbitrarily killing off any product I’ve actually liked.