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Turns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company. (lemmygrad.ml)

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https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I think there's a real chance google could be broken up. They've lost a couple of major antitrust cases in the past year but it remains to be seen what the judges will do. I think it's going to be difficult for everything that isn't ads to survive though if ads is what gets cut out.