Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
I'm not going to lie whenever I want to find something on the Internet I just put Reddit at the back. At least I know most of the replies and comments on there are authentic
Let’s not forget about TH-cam’s search functionality. These days it feels like you can’t search a topic without being bombarded with irrelevant shorts and “you might also like” videos.
their goal is to hook you into doomscrolling, so they can show you more ads and make more money. It works best if you get completely sidetracked from what you originally came in for. They measure session time and hyperoptimize the landing page to achieve these goals.
Google is creating the very mistake they used to overtake Yahoo. They are forgetting that it's a search engine, not an advertising billboard. The biggest lesson of history is, nobody gets their lessons from history!
They learn, but the wrong lessons. At least from the perspective of us consumers. To them, it's all great, like milk it as long as you can and when it's totally burnt down, move on to the next thing. At first make it seem nice but when you have the userbase, start to put the squeeze on.
They got greedy...or, to be more precise, after being good enough they got controlled by investors vetted by the state, that are notoriously greedy and look to their growth prognosis and decide in board meetings what to do to maintain that, skrew quality of service, growth is what we need, cause that means bonusses and that medium to large villa is not going to build itself, right!?!
Correct. Which is why when I hear people ignorantly say "we objectively live in the best time for human standards of living" I laugh because they have no idea what their bread and circuses actually cost. This is the era of ignorance in the greatest age of information we've ever had... irony incarnate.
Google search started turning into garbage when they replaced proper Boolean searches with their 'we think you meant this' approach. I can literally search using quotation marks, 'AND', and '-' but will get back PAGES of results that have nothing to do with what I searched for.
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
The same thing happens to TH-cam. When you search something on TH-cam, maybe the top 5 videos will be related, but the rest will be just recommended videos. They don't care if you find "what you asked for", they just want you to stay as long as possible on the app.
sadly works even if i dont wanna watch more than the current video, theres smth unrelated but interesting, and another click, or i just forget it was the last one because interesting
I’ve noticed Google search declining for years and haven’t had the smarts or the words to describe it. Your video helped me understand problems I’ve seen and more that I didn’t know about! Thank you for your insights
TH-cam search is even worse now, you get like 3 results related to your search and then it just turns into suggested rubbish completely irrelevant to what you searched for. It's unusable.
This is old news like 10 year old news. Why is it presented as a new thing? This was documented in major newspapers online in 2008, for example. The content creators are searching 16 year old news articles for content, lol.......
Once you learn the concept of "enshitification" - you start to see it everywhere. I remember when Barnes and Noble first made their big move to destroy mom and pop bookstores back in the late 1980s- early 90s (pre-amazon of course). They installed all kinds of comfortable seating and tables. People used the stores like libraries. Once they achieved their dominant status - they removed all the comfortable seating.
Scummy mentality that most big companies have. I still can’t wrap my head around the enormous greed of these people. They’re profiting absurds amounts of money but still they feel the need to diminish their quality to make even more profit instead of doubling down on MORE quality for higher prices(for those who want to pay more,ofc)
@@tabemsinsThat’s the spirit of 🇺🇸 bro. Capitalist societies are all about greed. This country is really about to fall and I can’t wait. Corrupted and trashed the whole world
Just found your channel and I'm loving this video already! I'm a florist and our industry has been plagued by order gatherers dominating the search results, confusing and tricking customers into thinking they're brick and mortar shops. There's also a huge problem with home or studio based florists getting totally bumped from their business Google listing for no apparent reason. Clearly they are prioritizing these paid ads for what are essentially scam artists over real businesses. Also I can not STAND how hard it's been doing research for my own business. Subscribing now!
Calling it "borderline" broken was very... gentle of you, Arun. Google Search IS broken--and even the search results after the ads are often useless, no matter what the search term. When Google got rid of their "Don't be evil" motto, they really, really weren't kidding.
It is. Try to look something up that's even marginally "conservative".. and by that, I mean out of standard educationally ie "how much CO2 is put out by X volcano prior to eruption". Everything CO2 related comes up, but NOT volcano levels. Then, I'm bombarded for days with what seems to be my own personal re-education camp. I use a different SE on my work computer.
The worst part is the blatant censorship... There are hundreds of things you can search for that they will simply refuse to give you accurate results for, simply because they don't like the politics. I literally use Chinese search engines when I'm looking up political content.
@@cristiewentz8586Volcanic emissions are not considered to be excess carbon emissions because they’re part of earth’s carbon cycle. Unlike human emissions, they do not create a net gain in CO2 levels
Another problem with Google is that it weighs newer articles over older articles, which means that info that is correct, but perhaps old, it might disappear beneath something newer, but less accurate.
... Google's bad in every way remove it from your life. Use Ducks duck instead it works just like google did before losing their way plus it won't track or sell your data either.
This is increasingly problematic when you consider that NEWER stuff is often less understood. You want that sweet spot of not so old it's outdated, and not so new it's uninformed.
This is my beef about Amazon…it’s becoming very difficult to shop for something specific, because it wants to show me everything even remotely related to my search…it’s very annoying !
Online shopping has become incredibly tedious just in general. Most sites are just pretty bad like Amazon, and the rest are mostly complete scams. When the biggest step in buying stuff online has become making sure it's not a scam product or a scam page, things have gone terribly wrong. There is room for someone to come in and kill both Amazon and Google just by providing an actually functioning online marketplace for stuff.
I completely understand this. Usually I'll get so stressed out trying to pick the "right" one, that I just give up and don't buy anything from frustration.
I just got to the point that I look for the word sponsored in my search and then purposefully NOT click on it. This is googles way of telling me I’m about to get scammed.
Yesterday I Googled "How old was Burt Reynolds when he was in Smokey and the Bandit", and Google came back with Burt's Obituary (he died at 82), and tons of other information that had nothing to do with Smokey and the Bandit. This is happening more and more frequently, to the point where Google is becoming increasingly useless.
It will give you everything but what you're looking for. You'll never find the exact make and model of car you're searching. You'll get the year before and after
This is the jist of the problem! People who only use Google to buy stuff are the problem. Normal searches are broken and don't work anymore. I literally cannot find any answers to my searches because it automatically thinks I want to buy something and changes the term I am searching. This is a known scam by Google. If I'm looking for "x", it will actually still write "x" in the search bar but the search engine changes the search to "y" and gives the "y" results while falsely showing "x" in the search. It is is only there to get ad revenue now. It's no longer interested in being a search engine. It literally doesn't work any more for non-marketable searches. I don't care so much about being bombarded with ads when wanting to buy something
I’ve been building my website for years. Its main source of traffic was Google Search, and I followed all of Google’s recommendations: no spam, no spammy link building, and only high-quality, valuable content. During the HCU update, Google killed my website, just as it did for many other bloggers and small business owners. The most hilarious thing is that spammy websites now rank for the keywords I was targeting with good, valuable, researched content.
ChatGPT already forces you to use GPT 4o for the first few prompts then telling you that you need to upgrade to continue or start a new chat and lose your progress
Haha I started doing this too! Only when searching for reviews. I trust some random Reddit person more than curated reviews that don’t admit to sponsorships.
I've had a lot of "Huh." moments when I search through google, and this really clears up those times I've felt something off searching through Google. Appreciate these deep dive videos.
An important thing to note. I as a tech savvy person dont really care about the ads cause of adblocker and knowing these links are ads but people like my parents are the ones that suffer. Everytime I am with my parents and they google something in front of me I see them clicking on the ads and not finding what they really want only for them to turn around ask me to find the right thing. I mean the whole purpose of google is for everyone to find the thing they want without needing to ask someone else.
Do remember that us "tech savvy" users or at least users who understand how to search effectively are the minority of the internet. Best example i can think of is how the vast majority of gamers online hate EA games and advice against buying them, but this company is undoubtedly one of the highest earning company on the market because the target audience isnt that group.
Amazon is moving in the same direction. Now that a lot of stores close down for good, amazon products get worse and worse unless you specifically search for the brand name item.
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
another huge UI middle finger from google's shopping tab: on mobile, when you click on any other category tab (like images, for example) the other tabs remain visible for you to cycle through them. with shopping, it opens a whole new UI that hides the other tabs, so the only way to get to a different one is to navigate back out. combined with the tabs changing their order depending on what google thinks is relevant to your search, this makes accidental taps of the shopping tab not just infuriating, but straight up predatory.
@@skateify31 had a full screen ad look like an iOS system pop up wtf Apple please redesign them one becuase there starting to get old and two specifically to spit shit like that
And the shopping is pure sponsored, there are so many scams if you sort by price. I was trying to find a heavy duty office chair that wasn't a ton of money (surprisingly hard,) and the first thing that came up was a scam site that looked legit, but seemed off, so i checked the address the site itself listed, and on google maps it's literally just a house. selling bulky office furninture? i don't think so.
The same thing can be seen with the ads on TH-cam. TH-camrs' careers can be destroyed just by doing something that very faintly triggers TH-cam's demonetization systems, while so many disgusting and fake mobile game ads that themselves violate TH-cam guidelines are being bombarded onto users.
The scam ads are a bigger problem than anything IMO. I've gotten so many obviously fake ads that I just assume every ad I see on TH-cam is a scam, so I always disregard them. I would do this anyway ofc, but now even if there *is* something that catches my attention, I don't even bother trying to decipher if it is real or not...
And I feel like that’s on a good day using TH-cam. Let alone whatever other stupid thing they’re trying to sell you. What’s really dumb is the algorithm has 0 clue what I give a fart about. If it just played me movie / tv trailers it be amazing. But instead it shows me car commercials or insurance or shampoo. 🤷♂️
and then the comments that go seemingly gibberish but when you click the "google translate" button conveniently placed below by youtube/google itself magically turn into csem
For me the issue with Google are not the adds, but the overall quality of the results when you look for something that is not a product... like an issue you have with a device..
I'm honestly growing sick of Google and I'm so glad you mentioned Google Gemini. I literally searched up Ryan's age (from Ryan's World) because everyone was talking about how he is too old for this kids stuff and Google Gemini (AI overview) said that he was born on "October 6th, 2011, making him 12 years old." This is obviously incorrect. His birthday is right, but doing simple math would tell you he's 13. If google is failing to update or fact-check stuff like this, I'm scared for all the "true" things google claims nowadays. I literally had to click on a website just to be relieved to see his age correct.
They seem to just be copying excerpts from various sources and not bothering to check if they are actually true or correct,so you get people stating ‘facts’ because they looked it up on google,and it seems to of got much worse lately.
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
I get that there's ads, i know to look for the sponsered, but as he says, the problem is they now refuse to do their job and search for anything BUT sponsored links. the rest is vague, hot garbage in a dumster fire.
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
so how do you reckon they make profit for providing the great service you desire? A genuine question. I am not for a multibillion-dollar company but certainly not against it either
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
well the founders really want their projects to be succesful and innovative but after it becomes big and goes public it usually becomes a profit driven business for their shareholders and nothing else
It’s not just corporate greed, it’s short term corporate greed. It seems that to milk extra $$ now they’re cannibalizing their long term business model
Honestly so glad you made a video addressing this. Its such a huuuge problem, google is basically useless if your searching for specific answers or products now. Only way to do it is to add "reddit" after to get actual answers. I mean can you even search for intellectual documenta anymore?(honestly dont know)
@@ThreadBomb problem is there well over 99% of people dont even know you can search like that. like i didn't even know you could search of specific file types like that.
When I ask questions about health, I often get suggested scientific articles from NCBI or Researchgate. I believe these are more legit than Reddit or Quora, because it seems to me there are a lot of trolls and people spreading things that I already knew as disinformations.
You are out of touch with the world around you. This is old news like 10 year old news. Why is it presented as a new thing? This was documented in major newspapers online in 2008, for example. The content creators are searching 16 year old news articles for content, lol.
I work in SEO and I've absolutely noticed the difference. It's essentially meaningless to even try and optimize your site at this point because you end up with generic slop that isn't engaging to customers and then you lose out to people who can just buy their way to the top results anyhow. As a company, we've had to move away from SEO and more into other types of promotion just to make our clients competitive. We're basically more of a traditional marketing company now than a digital one.
SEO is honestly killing a lot of the internet. I had to learn it as part of my marketing degree so I get the benefit But when you’re just looking for a chicken recipie and have to scroll through 10 pages of story behind the recipe to appease SEO so their page shows up higher, it’s contributing now to the enshittification of the internet
It’s always been talked about ”SEO dying” since its inception but I think with Google’s response to generative AI, SEO is actually dead. Google has confirmed links are no longer a top 3 ranking factor (whatever human element there was to SEO no longer exists) so basically all their algorithm does is assess your content. Everyone and their mother uses GPT, and so basically you have 4 ads, and then different GPT responses, with affiliate links. It’s dog shit and they don’t care enough to fix it because they are no longer an innovative company.
@nazakatkhan4329 He was paid probably nothing for that newspaper. He most likely got it from the side of the street or a grocery store. If this is all it takes to trigger you, then you live a sad life.
My personal favorite. I type in "Lowes" or "Walmart" and I get the sponsored spot directly above the actual results. I guess get paid for sponsors even when it's exactly what I already wanted.
I honestly never really noticed this I’m glad you brought it up. I subconsciously scroll through the sponsors and forgot google didn’t used to be like this.
Really? You didn't remember? This had to be pointed out to you for you to recall? This is why corporations are winning and we are losing: because this is the level of intelligence we're dealing with here.
Really? You didn't remember? This had to be pointed out to you for you to recall? This is why corporations are winning and we are losing: because this is the level of intelligence we're dealing with here.
Really? You didn't remember? This had to be pointed out to you for you to recall? This is why corporations are winning and we are losing: because this is the level of intelligence we're dealing with here.
Have you noticed how bad youtube suggested videos are now? It's an endless loop of content I've already viewed, or videos from channels I'm already subscribed to. There's no longer a youtube rabbit hole to go down - there's almost no related videos to what I'm viewing other than clickbait content farm crap.
@@accountname-tu2omI would love to notice that but I'm waiting for the Deep dive video on why the TH-cam app is the worst piece of garbage software I've ever fucking used in my life
Same for TH-cam search. I searched for "Hello Future Me", a writing advice channel. His channel would automatically appeared on the top bar, but now all I got is some new song from Korean boyband
I just opened up comments to look for alternatives, but didn't find any, could somebody advice anything that can replace google? I am sick of these ads too
One thing that has been deteriorating even more in my opinion is Google Lens. I used to be able to photograph a plant, a mineral or whatever and get shown articles about the exact thing I was looking for. Nowadays I photograph a larimar stone and it just goes "Blue Stone, uhmmmm you want aquamarine? Because, uhmmm you know, I could find more ads for this"
Enshittification at work again. They show you their product's capability at first, start introducing ads next and before you know it, the whole thing turns shitty and then they want you to pay for it to use it like it once was
Google's bad in every way remove from your life. Use Ducks duck instead it works just like google did before losing their way plus it won't track or sell your data either.
Man, remember when Google used to be a cool company... Although I believe this is more the main problem of the internet in a capitalist system. The internet and capitalism simply don't align since scarcity isn't a thing on the internet unless it is made artificially so. And everything revolving AI makes this even more clear. To me it feels like one of the biggest challenges we face in our modern society. How to continue our ways when scarcity gets eradicated more and more each day. I fear it will get a whole lot worse in the near future...
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
@@keit99 Fox is also not that great. It's great but we should be a bit positive however it's also sometimes making weird choices not in our favor. But yes it's dna is not with Chromium. Brave is ad-free but still chromium.
I had a small shop. And even when you gave the full name of my shop u couldn’t find me on google. Ads are to expensive as well its crazy. I been praying some one will release a video like this. Back in the days u could find anything. Now u find what google wants you to.
Yep. And 'google fu' is dead for much the same reason: if you can't format our search string to account for the current quarter's SEO tricks, you are completely lost for all but the most simple search queries.
Reminds me of my instagram experience. Since I have an Airsoft related service, IG keeps shadowbanning my page because I’m “against TOC” but they seem to have no problem if I pay money to promote the same post that’s “in violation”. They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. It’s just greed.
So how do you advertise on the internet If you run a business.? .. My GF has a QuickBooks qualification. She has done online advertising. .. But she wants to increase her online presence?
Just realize something with the sponsered message. Arun usually says if a message is sponsered witt a big sponsered text but he didn't and made the text smaller just like google is doing!
@@Argumemnon What's annoying is that if you use the safe search options to avoid running into p07n, you'll get nearly nothing of what you're trying to find. Nowadays, it seems like you're baited into searching for naughty material because of how weird the censorship works. And reporting nasty images or ads to Google is a waste of time. You get the same robot response followed by your complaint being turned down.
@@Argumemnon But then that demeans AI art and imagery, and the anti AI separates win. We must accept that AI IS reality and valid, and that means that there is no separation between art and ai art. Only then can we can finally start copyrighting AI art. Thankfully Trump is very pro AI and business.
Cooking recipes sites are literally the worst content on the Internet. Not only do they ramble on forever about... Stuff? Before getting to the recipe... The amount of ads that are specifically designed to make them hard to scroll past and obnoxiously intrusive makes the entire site basically unreadable.
@@Venvaneless Was about to comment the same thing. The biggest sites I know have maybe one paragraph of fluff, sometimes even nothing, and then get straight to it. And when its smaller sites they usually have a "skip to recipe" button.
Then, get an adblocker If you're on pc/desktop/Mac, use a non-Chromium browser with uBlock Origin. If you're on an android based tv, use "Smart Tube" And if you're on an android phone, use "Revanced" (If you're on iOS, don't get your hopes up)
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
so how do you reckon they make profit for providing the great service you desire? A genuine question. I am not for a multibillion-dollar company but certainly not against it either
Something I’ve noticed that I think should be ILLEGAL is even when searching for a SPECIFIC site, Google will present me with the advert of that site first and COLLECT REVENUE even though they didn’t direct me to that site, I had already INTENDED to go to that site.
yes, but then to be fair the site chooses which keywords their ad will appear for and if you are paying for clicks to a domain keyword that already ranks, then you are not really keeping your eye on the ball
@@RandomButBeautiful so you’re saying that these websites are choosing their own domain name as a keyword to keep themselves above other adverts that would also choose their name. So they’re choosing to pay, and I can’t really blame Google
@@PigPenSnaps the way those ads work is that you choose the keywords your ad appears on. I am not sure if they think they are competing with someone who would outrank them, or just including their own name in their ad spend without checking their organic rank for their own name first. I would probably blame stupidity.
@@RandomButBeautiful They have to bid on their own brand and domain keywords, because if they don't, someone else will, and then half of their traffic will go to their competitor instead, or worse, to a phishing scam site pretending to be them.
It's absolutely horrendous now, searching for anything from shopping to news just brings back results from sponsored ads with anything Google deems "inappropriate" filters then out completely... And now TH-cam has become the same rubbish too!
my biggest pet peeve is searching something simple like “show season release date” then having to read an entire summary of the show all the reviews and a bunch of other things i didn’t ask for before finally getting my answer towards the end of the article.
...or that it is some obviously foreign language person who copied it and the grammar isn't even right plus, they NEVER give you the date (or the wrong date)
@@scpatl4now Yesssss i get so angry after digging thru a article for the answer and only seeing “it was announced in 202X” and no release date when the article is literally titled ____ new season release
Fr it's so annoying and I feel like it's getting even worse because now they're even faking the titles. A while ago the first part of the page actually said "What is *show*?" but now they already name that part "When does season ... release?" and still start explaining what it is before getting to the point and then somewhere 2 miles down you find the small "Release date:" even though the title suggested it would be at the top...
@@ptm_tobiSo you found an actual date? 😮 When I searched for something like that I too got the useless summaries then I didn't even get a date or anything in the end. It's frustrating
I hate that too. I mostly do a quick Ctrl+F text search for a word that I would expect. In your case something like "2024", "release", "announce". You can also just try a few letters of the word in case they wrote "announing" instead of "announced". If I don't get any hits I go to another site.
I used to enjoy shopping online because I felt like the search gave me access to more stores and also I could consciously choose to shop with smaller more independent retail businesses rather than the big chain stores, but it's almost impossible to do now. The search results are completely dominated by the big chain retailers, and you can scroll for pages and pages and not find any. It’s like hitting a brick wall and it’s taken the enjoyment out of it. I used to really enjoy finding a good independent retailer with good prices, good service and sometimes more unique higher quality products.
Has anyone found good options for this? I've ocassionaly found some things on Ebay (used clothes, finding 100% cotton is ridiculous other than vintage) but unless I know the exact brand name of something I want, I can barely find anything I'm looking for when shopping. Amazon is a mess and Google search reviews are either the same companies over and over, scams, or items not related to my search.
Exactly,I’ve been wanting to find some quality products from smaller independent retailers,but every recommendation that comes up is usually one or two big retailers or of course endless recommendations for products from Amazon 😅
Trying to look for products in Canada is especially bad, as the prices are all over the place (mostly US), most of the offered products aren't available in or to ship to Canada, and the selection offered is mostly dropshipping. Unless I already know the company, I just go and look in the store.
I’ve gradually started hating the internet since 2012 or so. What you describe Google doing at the end of making a product consumers like then making one advertisers like and in the end having a product that sucks for everyone but Google is EXACTLY what I’ve felt about social media platforms for a decade now. I joined Instagram because I love looking at photos, but now it’s TikTok. If I wanted TikTok, I’d use TikTok. Pinterest used to be great for finding ideas but now it feels like Amazon with all the shopping ads. They all gave us products we wanted and then completely destroyed them for profit while telling users “we’re always looking to improve YOUR experience” 🙄
There was a golden era for the Internet but for over a decade now it's literally turned to trash as every feature and option is treated as an opportunity to extract money from the user. We are literally living in the age of the black mirror.
Pinterest is also flooded with shitty AI now. A few years ago, you could find lots of great creativity, but now it's all lazy junk that looks the same.
I'm glad you mentioned what has become my single least favourite thing on the internet: Affiliate links, and the countless adverstisements disguised as "articles" that abuse them. Finding something resembling an actual review of something is painfully difficult because of this, and trying to find comparative reviews / roundups (ie. "best of 2024") is just straight up impossible; EVERY single search result is an ad disguised as an article. If someone made me Dictator of the Internet, my first law would be requiring every article containing even a single affiliate link to have the words "THIS IS AN ADVERSTISEMENT, NOT A REVIEW" plastered on top of each page in giant unmissable font. The way affiliate links are being used today is nothing short of fraud, and should _absolutely_ be illegal.
This is true. Once I searched something on google and I found a link COMPLETELY different from what I was searching and thought "What's going on? I didn't search for this."
I do SEO for a living, and I cannot tell you how many people either ask or complain about why results are so bad lately. Between inconsistent AI results, sponsored links, and outright bad results, it isn't surprising that people are slowly transitioning away from Google.
I've found chatGPT gives me a better answer to almost any question that isn't "dominos lynnwood". Google is mostly just my review/number/direction getting app, not to find the answer to an actual question.
@@Faizan29353 currently, not really anyone is better than Google. But data shows a (reasonably small) shift of users moving towards Bing and DuckDuckGo for their primary forms of organic search.
@@Faizan29353 DuckDuckGo (bing but with slightly more privacy) and Kagi (paid, but no ads) are two trendy alternatives that come to mind. However, if your solution to google results being bad is to add 'reddit' after every search, don't worry - Google is paying Reddit to make your experience worse. Google and Reddit made an deal earlier this year, where Reddit allows Google to train its AI on reddit posts. As a part of this deal, Reddit is not allowing other search engines to index reddit posts. This means legitimate search engines won't be able to find any reddit threads made after cca April this year.
The reputation of Google search is so bad now that I often see people in our local Facebook group posting questions like "what time is the ferry", "what is the fastest route to x" which at one time would have been an obvious thing to Google but now it's easier to just ask other humans on FB even with the delay in getting an answer.
It was great to see your message "it's easier to just ask other humans", because 35 years ago that's just what we did! Any event worth checking out was posted on (1) newspaper, (2) radio, or (3) coworkers/friends/neighbors/relatives. That last category was the most important because it was their opinion that carried the most influence. They were "free influencers" who had nothing to gain financially from telling you how they really felt, so their opinions were mostly organic and unfiltered. We were better "connected" to our world then, than we are now.
Try Duck duck go it works just like Google used too. Plus it doesn't track your movements or sell your data like Google does either. Been using it for years now and i'm a genuinely happy user.
Google's bad in every way remove it from your life. Use Ducks duck instead it works just like google did before losing their way plus it won't track or sell your data either.
Google's bad in every way just remove it from your life. Use Ducks duck instead it works just like google did before losing their way plus it won't track or sell your data either.
@@Niki_SchreiberI just googled it and it’s effectively the same thing as owning an NFT, except they mail you a mockup “certificate of authenticity” alongside a printout of the listing photo
In the past it was viable to create a film company, TV network, search engine, cellphone manufacturing, video hosting, to compete with the market leader. Today there's no way a startup can compete with companies like TH-cam or Disney. Just imagine all the businessmen looking for ideas, and there's certain industries that are off-limits because they've already been cornered off. We let it get out of hand and now we live in this weird timeline.
To exclude Wiki sites from search results, add -wiki to your search. To exclude corporate sites, add -corporate and -terms (since these words often appear on corporate sites). To exclude educational sites, add -edu. To exclude government sites, add -gov. By excluding these, you can reveal more personal and independent websites.
I'll be honest, I've been using adblocks for so long now that I wasn't even aware of the sponsor issue until I specifically turned off all adblocks just to see what it looks like with all the sponsors.
It's jarring whenever I see a coworker's web browser, lots of space occupied by ads, pop up and Google search looking awful. It's also funny to see how they react when I put ad block on their's and how cleaner the experience becomes
Tech influencers should stop focusing on gadgets and move towards user experience (easiness, longevity, long term costs, ecosystem, security, right to repair etc.). This requires deeper knowledge and focusing on software and services. I am glad seeing baby steps towards this direction.
Thank you pointing this out. For more than a year I've been venting myself to all my friends how terrible Google is and they don't really understand it. But its a regular occurrence that for a given search 50% of the page is ads, and all of the search results are SEO optimized articles written by vendors who are either promoting themselves or are talking about something they have authority in. The results are garbage! And the crazy thing is the internet is SO vast someone must have made a high quality page. It's just that it never surfaces beyond the ads and SEO hacks.
Whenever I google something, I just automatically blank out the first stuff I see and then start to read more intently after 1-2 seconds of scrolling. What a disaster...
Problem with Google Search is getting worse for a variety of reasons. I noticed that when I want to search for videos within Google, I don't get "Videos" anymore. I can do "Image" search, "New", etc..., but "Videos" disappeared when I search through Brave browser staring the other day, although it's there when using Chrome (of course) and Firefox. It's like they're actively forcing you to use their competitors. I might have to start using Yahoo or Bing out of desperation!
The company that I work for got hit with some pretty nasty malware recently all because an employee Google searched for a certain document they were looking for. They thought they found what they were looking for but it turned out to be malware from a site that was using SEO to push it's results to the top. Absolutely insane that things like this can be pushed to the top of the search results.
This is one of those cases where these web sites should be responsible for such things. Same thing with facebook/instagram. You cant just play 'free speech' card and boost criminals and share profit.
@@denizersoz7012 I doubt that censorship is an answer for that, but don't they have an AI? Why not using it for search results as well? It's really hilarious how much better ChatGPT is compared to G-search these days if you have specific questions.
My parents got scammed by searching for an airline's support number and getting some random company that charged them $200 for rebooking. At some point Google needs to be held liable for the harm they are causing. Promoting terrible scam ads or dangerous misinformation on TH-cam is also a huge issue.
What frustrates me with both google and YT lately is, when I enter search words in my native language (Dutch), I get search results that are English websites or videos with their text translated in Dutch. Which is really frustrating when I am looking for localised information or Dutch spoken videos.
And then refreshes all unposted comments minutes later, making it seem like I'm a mental spammer while leaving my comment unposted as if I didn't just post my comment so I repost again and again for my comment to post.
It's a trend. It happened with OpenAI, it happened with Google, and many others. "Transparent and in the academic realm" is a load of BS now. Removing the "don't be evil" motto was at least an honest maneuver. Unfortunately, the bigger companies get, a financially competitive advantage and market share seems to be much more important than moral integrity. I can't think of a current example that doesn't exemplify this. It's more profitable to manipulate consumers than to act in the consumers' best intentions. Thanks for using your clout to bring light to this, Mrwhosetheboss! This is really important content!
On top of that, they are aggressively anti-user. I noticed more and more over the years that I can search for something specific that I know exists, and it doesn’t matter how expertly I craft my keywords, because I’ve been doing this since the 90s and I know how to craft keywords, they refused to show me the result that I know exist. I sometimes have to dig into the second or third page before I get even close.
One thing I figured out a few years ago was to avoid the "Top 10" videos on TH-cam when looking for products, like printers for example. The channels basically pretend that they reviewed the items, but all the footage they use is stock footage, and text is from the product website. And every printer would be in a different room, on a different table, and you would never actually see the TH-camr in the same room as the product. I figured it out pretty quickly, but I think a lot of people get fooled by it.
Also all the tech fixes that copy the same content. You search for something like how to network unlock your phone. You get 20 results that give the same unhelpful advice, in the exact same wording, in the exact same order of steps. It's like copying your classmate's homework.
They've destroyed Search and youtube with non stop ads. Not going to pay for premium so starting to watch less and less, listening to more podcasts and even starting to go back towards TV viewing
Well done for expressing the frustration I have had with Google's results recently. Noticed all of these issues: Lots of ads before results, updated but old lists, almost incomprehensible product descriptions etc I've basically developed an internal filter to ignore headline stuff and and to scroll down past the 'fold line' (learned a new term!) to find the relevant details. General enshxxification, evidently.
I appreciate a more consumer-focused YT channel covering this. As a content creator ourselves, it's SO frustrating dealing (competing) with Forbes in the software review category. More people need to hear this. An interesting bit that you didn't cover was the $60 million agreement that Google signed with Reddit which essentially raised Reddits rankings in results as well. Reddit has been going downhill and yet now they are almost always the #1 result. It's a bummer and hoping they get back to their roots and start prioritizing the smaller sites that are actually focusing on quality and research.
woaah, i didn’t know this! so THAT explains why i see reddit all the time despite not searching for it. crazy how much of our experience online and in this world is controlled.
100% accurate! I've seen shady websites often bidding on branded keywords, which redirects to shady sites, as you mentioned, Google takes zero accountability for who shows up in sponsored.
UsE YANDEX for anything regarding culture and politics they do not memory hole anything in fact they even index the way back machine! When it comes to politics or culture it is the only search engine that gives you the truth even if it hurts your feelings
Your move Google 👍
For how Social Media is secretly becoming a Casino: th-cam.com/video/4maJty0vQjI/w-d-xo.html
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
Whatever
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@@alphaa2010No they won't
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The only good thing about Google search is that it searches Reddit better than Reddit’s search when it comes to older posts
I'm not going to lie whenever I want to find something on the Internet I just put Reddit at the back. At least I know most of the replies and comments on there are authentic
@@littleswansplaygrownd6817 same man
avoid g and red imo
Don't spill the (kind of) secrets. They'll somehow find a way to spam this technique with ads as well. @@littleswansplaygrownd6817
Remember blogs and other forums? Yeah, now you will only find reddit.
Let’s not forget about TH-cam’s search functionality. These days it feels like you can’t search a topic without being bombarded with irrelevant shorts and “you might also like” videos.
Yeah and for me at least the “you might also like” is stuff that would’ve showed up in my recommended later on or I already watched
their goal is to hook you into doomscrolling, so they can show you more ads and make more money. It works best if you get completely sidetracked from what you originally came in for. They measure session time and hyperoptimize the landing page to achieve these goals.
Yoooooo I'm glad someone brought this up. It's been pushing me more to TikTok
What's crazy is sometimes when you search for a video word for word it literally won't appear at all.
@@superNova5837 the already watched is making me mad the most...
Google is creating the very mistake they used to overtake Yahoo. They are forgetting that it's a search engine, not an advertising billboard.
The biggest lesson of history is, nobody gets their lessons from history!
Once they have defeated their rivals then they think they are Kind/god.... And then they do the same.
@@RajKumar-mv6om And most of them accept the same fate....
They learn, but the wrong lessons. At least from the perspective of us consumers. To them, it's all great, like milk it as long as you can and when it's totally burnt down, move on to the next thing. At first make it seem nice but when you have the userbase, start to put the squeeze on.
They got greedy...or, to be more precise, after being good enough they got controlled by investors vetted by the state, that are notoriously greedy and look to their growth prognosis and decide in board meetings what to do to maintain that, skrew quality of service, growth is what we need, cause that means bonusses and that medium to large villa is not going to build itself, right!?!
@@ShrekMeBe As an end user, it's just sad to see their downfall, then again, what possibly a single user can do right?
The enshittification of Google and TH-cam is a tragedy of information 10000 times the scale of the sacking of the library of Alexandria
Correct. Which is why when I hear people ignorantly say "we objectively live in the best time for human standards of living" I laugh because they have no idea what their bread and circuses actually cost. This is the era of ignorance in the greatest age of information we've ever had... irony incarnate.
Google search started turning into garbage when they replaced proper Boolean searches with their 'we think you meant this' approach. I can literally search using quotation marks, 'AND', and '-' but will get back PAGES of results that have nothing to do with what I searched for.
Yep that was the beginning of the end. It steered users to what Google wanted instead of to what users individually wanted.
Exactly 😭
totally agree
You remember how long ago this was?
I think it was like 4 years ago... but I'm not sure
@lokifishmarz You remember how long ago this was?
I think it was like 4 years ago... but I'm not sure
Bro has exposed literally every social media platform so accurately. Mad respect
@@fawwazahmad16 Aye. He's done a man's job. My respect for him only grows.
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
Don't need a professional camera, just use a phone camera, good luck! @@alphaa2010
@@alphaa2010, 2010 is your year of birth?
Ironically, if you have critical thinking, you will see the coprorate falsehoods without anyone else's help.
The same thing happens to TH-cam. When you search something on TH-cam, maybe the top 5 videos will be related, but the rest will be just recommended videos. They don't care if you find "what you asked for", they just want you to stay as long as possible on the app.
I noticed that also. This is so annoying when I forget what I searched for because the results have nothing to do with it
Ikr!! Genuinely so annoying!
sadly works
even if i dont wanna watch more than the current video, theres smth unrelated but interesting, and another click, or i just forget it was the last one because interesting
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You are right!
I’ve noticed Google search declining for years and haven’t had the smarts or the words to describe it. Your video helped me understand problems I’ve seen and more that I didn’t know about! Thank you for your insights
TH-cam search is even worse now, you get like 3 results related to your search and then it just turns into suggested rubbish completely irrelevant to what you searched for. It's unusable.
Exactly I want to watch more content to what I’m relating too
Can't say I've encountered that. Maybe because I'm using Brave browser
You are absolutely right.
Here is a tip: I emptied my watch history and then paused it, while its still less than ideal it helps a lot.
i have not ever once clicked on a 'You might also like this' video, ever
That sinking feeling you get when someone proves something you've known for a while and that there's not much you could do to change it 😢
This is old news like 10 year old news. Why is it presented as a new thing? This was documented in major newspapers online in 2008, for example. The content creators are searching 16 year old news articles for content, lol.......
Google was not using ai in 2008 bro. He literally shows in the video how much it'd changed in the last 3 yrs alone😊
I feel like there's a word in German for that but I'm not sure what it is lol
@@ASDasdSDsadASD-nc7lf becaue op have life unlike you😅
Is duckduckgo problem solved, you’ll have to remember to use your brain though
Once you learn the concept of "enshitification" - you start to see it everywhere. I remember when Barnes and Noble first made their big move to destroy mom and pop bookstores back in the late 1980s- early 90s (pre-amazon of course). They installed all kinds of comfortable seating and tables. People used the stores like libraries.
Once they achieved their dominant status - they removed all the comfortable seating.
enshitification plus - google search
Scummy mentality that most big companies have. I still can’t wrap my head around the enormous greed of these people. They’re profiting absurds amounts of money but still they feel the need to diminish their quality to make even more profit instead of doubling down on MORE quality for higher prices(for those who want to pay more,ofc)
@@tabemsinsThat’s the spirit of 🇺🇸 bro. Capitalist societies are all about greed. This country is really about to fall and I can’t wait. Corrupted and trashed the whole world
And then Amazon put them out of business by selling below cost to dominate the market, then raised their prices when they eliminated the competition.
True
Just found your channel and I'm loving this video already! I'm a florist and our industry has been plagued by order gatherers dominating the search results, confusing and tricking customers into thinking they're brick and mortar shops. There's also a huge problem with home or studio based florists getting totally bumped from their business Google listing for no apparent reason. Clearly they are prioritizing these paid ads for what are essentially scam artists over real businesses.
Also I can not STAND how hard it's been doing research for my own business.
Subscribing now!
Calling it "borderline" broken was very... gentle of you, Arun.
Google Search IS broken--and even the search results after the ads are often useless, no matter what the search term.
When Google got rid of their "Don't be evil" motto, they really, really weren't kidding.
Now they lead in being evil
It is. Try to look something up that's even marginally "conservative".. and by that, I mean out of standard educationally ie "how much CO2 is put out by X volcano prior to eruption". Everything CO2 related comes up, but NOT volcano levels. Then, I'm bombarded for days with what seems to be my own personal re-education camp.
I use a different SE on my work computer.
The worst part is the blatant censorship... There are hundreds of things you can search for that they will simply refuse to give you accurate results for, simply because they don't like the politics. I literally use Chinese search engines when I'm looking up political content.
@@steve17bf2 they sure do
@@cristiewentz8586Volcanic emissions are not considered to be excess carbon emissions because they’re part of earth’s carbon cycle. Unlike human emissions, they do not create a net gain in CO2 levels
Another problem with Google is that it weighs newer articles over older articles, which means that info that is correct, but perhaps old, it might disappear beneath something newer, but less accurate.
I tend to have the opposite issue, I often get outdated results.
... Google's bad in every way remove it from your life. Use Ducks duck instead it works just like google did before losing their way plus it won't track or sell your data either.
@@Kkubey Both are a legitimate problem.
@@Kkubey are you using an older version of Google? 🤣
This is increasingly problematic when you consider that NEWER stuff is often less understood. You want that sweet spot of not so old it's outdated, and not so new it's uninformed.
This is my beef about Amazon…it’s becoming very difficult to shop for something specific, because it wants to show me everything even remotely related to my search…it’s very annoying !
Even worse is that more than half of the products are some temu garbage.
Boycott Amazon and buy direct 😊
Online shopping has become incredibly tedious just in general. Most sites are just pretty bad like Amazon, and the rest are mostly complete scams.
When the biggest step in buying stuff online has become making sure it's not a scam product or a scam page, things have gone terribly wrong.
There is room for someone to come in and kill both Amazon and Google just by providing an actually functioning online marketplace for stuff.
I completely understand this. Usually I'll get so stressed out trying to pick the "right" one, that I just give up and don't buy anything from frustration.
eBay still has the best search engine. I can narrow down and zero-in on exactly what I want.
The irony of you doing a sponsorship to recommend a different search engine at the end lmaoooo
Perfectly sums up why this trajectory is inevitable.
I just got to the point that I look for the word sponsored in my search and then purposefully NOT click on it. This is googles way of telling me I’m about to get scammed.
Halo
I purposefully click on it because the company has to pay for every click.
Omg nightfoxx
hi nightfoxx love your videos what laptop do you use i am looking for a new laptop
@@yashuady7803they pay for impressions, not clicks. they pay to show it to you.
The thing I've hated for years is searching for something, buying it and then for months getting ads on the thing I already got...
Yeah. You bought a computer? Here, you might want to buy MORE computers.
I keep getting ads of things that aren’t even available in my country damn it!
I love those ads, because then I'm seeing something that can't manipulate me into buying something, instead of an ad that might.
I like ads with hot women
Just turn off personal ads, havent gotten any ad based on my needs since like forever
Yesterday I Googled "How old was Burt Reynolds when he was in Smokey and the Bandit", and Google came back with Burt's Obituary (he died at 82), and tons of other information that had nothing to do with Smokey and the Bandit. This is happening more and more frequently, to the point where Google is becoming increasingly useless.
It will give you everything but what you're looking for. You'll never find the exact make and model of car you're searching. You'll get the year before and after
This is the jist of the problem!
People who only use Google to buy stuff are the problem. Normal searches are broken and don't work anymore. I literally cannot find any answers to my searches because it automatically thinks I want to buy something and changes the term I am searching. This is a known scam by Google. If I'm looking for "x", it will actually still write "x" in the search bar but the search engine changes the search to "y" and gives the "y" results while falsely showing "x" in the search. It is is only there to get ad revenue now. It's no longer interested in being a search engine.
It literally doesn't work any more for non-marketable searches.
I don't care so much about being bombarded with ads when wanting to buy something
Use chatgpt instead
I honestly feel you'd have a better chance getting an answer here than Google at this point
I google the year after my current car to find forums but my real year to get accurate shopping car parts it's insane
I’ve been building my website for years. Its main source of traffic was Google Search, and I followed all of Google’s recommendations: no spam, no spammy link building, and only high-quality, valuable content. During the HCU update, Google killed my website, just as it did for many other bloggers and small business owners. The most hilarious thing is that spammy websites now rank for the keywords I was targeting with good, valuable, researched content.
Looking forward to the day when ChatGpt starts typing 3 Ads before giving the answer to my question.
In chat gpt we scroll up so they might place it at the bottom which we need to scroll up through
ChatGPT already forces you to use GPT 4o for the first few prompts then telling you that you need to upgrade to continue or start a new chat and lose your progress
sam altman: write that down!!!
@@powers_core
That's not even that bad. At least you can use the more powerful version a little bit
As long as you're directly paying the full price of the product, you should be safe from enshittification.
Google search has become so bad , that I now add "reddit" in almost 80% of my queries , just so I can get a more helpful answer.
have you not noticed how fake reddit has become as well?
Same
I add r/ when searching for products. Once I am in the sub, it is better to apply for a date filter.
That would be me too
Haha I started doing this too! Only when searching for reviews. I trust some random Reddit person more than curated reviews that don’t admit to sponsorships.
I've had a lot of "Huh." moments when I search through google, and this really clears up those times I've felt something off searching through Google. Appreciate these deep dive videos.
Me too. Genuinly cant find anything. Im forced to use chatgpt to answer my questions.
Same!
It's not new. I use bing for accurate search.Ecosia fast , English and specific.
Google is hypocritical they tell marketers to focus on user experience above everything else, it seems they need to take a good look in the mirror.
An important thing to note. I as a tech savvy person dont really care about the ads cause of adblocker and knowing these links are ads but people like my parents are the ones that suffer. Everytime I am with my parents and they google something in front of me I see them clicking on the ads and not finding what they really want only for them to turn around ask me to find the right thing. I mean the whole purpose of google is for everyone to find the thing they want without needing to ask someone else.
Which AdBlockers
Use bing
Do remember that us "tech savvy" users or at least users who understand how to search effectively are the minority of the internet.
Best example i can think of is how the vast majority of gamers online hate EA games and advice against buying them, but this company is undoubtedly one of the highest earning company on the market because the target audience isnt that group.
Same with my brother I'm grade 8 with clickbait youtube videos like mebeast style
@@LibertarianGalt uBlock Origin don't forget the origin part because those are 2 completely separate adblockers
Bro doesn't care to get demonetized and still posts videos which criticise the company who is paying him. RESPECT THIS GUY
linus just posted a video like this and it got taken down. let’s see what happens here
@@nightwing8666 They were able to get Linus because his video gave instructions on how to "violate TH-cam terms of service"
Surfshark VPN always have him covered
You don't think is a strategy?
He's the best tech youtuber of all time
I didn't know I needed this video. I've definitely been noticing Google be absolutely useless for anything but the most basic searches.
I stoped useing chrome and google search about 6 months ago when i found it NEVER found what i specified.
Google is good for two things now IME: shopping, if you know what you want, and a link to the Wiki article.
Use quotation marks if you want to be specific ;)
Yeees. Me too. I've been getting irritated by google but wasn't sure why.
Same here lol
Amazon is moving in the same direction. Now that a lot of stores close down for good, amazon products get worse and worse unless you specifically search for the brand name item.
Google after pixel 8 review : 😩
Google after pixel 9 review : ☺️
Google after this review : ☠️☠️☠️
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
😂😂
@@alphaa2010At 100k followers/subs you will earn enough money to buy a professional camera😂
Blue comment spotted
The pixels are good phones though. If the company behind them weren't an advertising company, they would be amazing.
another huge UI middle finger from google's shopping tab: on mobile, when you click on any other category tab (like images, for example) the other tabs remain visible for you to cycle through them. with shopping, it opens a whole new UI that hides the other tabs, so the only way to get to a different one is to navigate back out. combined with the tabs changing their order depending on what google thinks is relevant to your search, this makes accidental taps of the shopping tab not just infuriating, but straight up predatory.
shit is evil fr
@@skateify31 had a full screen ad look like an iOS system pop up
wtf
Apple please redesign them one becuase there starting to get old and two specifically to spit shit like that
Mafia style huh
And the shopping is pure sponsored, there are so many scams if you sort by price. I was trying to find a heavy duty office chair that wasn't a ton of money (surprisingly hard,) and the first thing that came up was a scam site that looked legit, but seemed off, so i checked the address the site itself listed, and on google maps it's literally just a house. selling bulky office furninture? i don't think so.
The same thing can be seen with the ads on TH-cam. TH-camrs' careers can be destroyed just by doing something that very faintly triggers TH-cam's demonetization systems, while so many disgusting and fake mobile game ads that themselves violate TH-cam guidelines are being bombarded onto users.
The scam ads are a bigger problem than anything IMO. I've gotten so many obviously fake ads that I just assume every ad I see on TH-cam is a scam, so I always disregard them. I would do this anyway ofc, but now even if there *is* something that catches my attention, I don't even bother trying to decipher if it is real or not...
And I feel like that’s on a good day using TH-cam. Let alone whatever other stupid thing they’re trying to sell you. What’s really dumb is the algorithm has 0 clue what I give a fart about. If it just played me movie / tv trailers it be amazing. But instead it shows me car commercials or insurance or shampoo. 🤷♂️
Google only care how much money they earn from other companies, not a general public wanting specific answers
somebody has a tier 3 sub to several hot tub streamers lol
and then the comments that go seemingly gibberish but when you click the "google translate" button conveniently placed below by youtube/google itself magically turn into csem
For me the issue with Google are not the adds, but the overall quality of the results when you look for something that is not a product... like an issue you have with a device..
I'm honestly growing sick of Google and I'm so glad you mentioned Google Gemini. I literally searched up Ryan's age (from Ryan's World) because everyone was talking about how he is too old for this kids stuff and Google Gemini (AI overview) said that he was born on "October 6th, 2011, making him 12 years old." This is obviously incorrect. His birthday is right, but doing simple math would tell you he's 13. If google is failing to update or fact-check stuff like this, I'm scared for all the "true" things google claims nowadays. I literally had to click on a website just to be relieved to see his age correct.
They seem to just be copying excerpts from various sources and not bothering to check if they are actually true or correct,so you get people stating ‘facts’ because they looked it up on google,and it seems to of got much worse lately.
4 ads is actually crazy
Still not more than the amount of days I let it crust
ik,same here
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
@@TastyChocolatCake2011real
Nope, i only got 2 ads
Its even worse now. It's not that the only indication that its an ad is "sponsored" above the link, now in a tiny font is "ad" beside the url.
don't worry soon will be removed.
I was shopping for electronic components, I had to give up and search on ebay itself
I get that there's ads, i know to look for the sponsered, but as he says, the problem is they now refuse to do their job and search for anything BUT sponsored links. the rest is vague, hot garbage in a dumster fire.
As a 54 year old I am glad I got to experience the early internet. No to few ads, accurate/useful search, no popups, everything free. Good times.
Yes, Google Search has been steadily becoming more annoying. With Ads pushing down genuine search results, making people scroll more to find them.
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
@@alphaa2010 Kiss yourself
Honestly the only thing i use Google for is ChatGPT.
Use ad blockers. But the CCP level of censorship made Google useless.
so how do you reckon they make profit for providing the great service you desire? A genuine question. I am not for a multibillion-dollar company but certainly not against it either
Large corporations like Google always start well but eventually are driven by corporate greed.
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
@@alphaa2010 simmer down
well the founders really want their projects to be succesful and innovative but after it becomes big and goes public it usually becomes a profit driven business for their shareholders and nothing else
Same thing, me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s not just corporate greed, it’s short term corporate greed. It seems that to milk extra $$ now they’re cannibalizing their long term business model
Honestly so glad you made a video addressing this. Its such a huuuge problem, google is basically useless if your searching for specific answers or products now. Only way to do it is to add "reddit" after to get actual answers. I mean can you even search for intellectual documenta anymore?(honestly dont know)
You can narrow a search with a term like "filetype:pdf". And google scholar still exists.
@@ThreadBomb problem is there well over 99% of people dont even know you can search like that. like i didn't even know you could search of specific file types like that.
When I ask questions about health, I often get suggested scientific articles from NCBI or Researchgate.
I believe these are more legit than Reddit or Quora, because it seems to me there are a lot of trolls and people spreading things that I already knew as disinformations.
You are out of touch with the world around you. This is old news like 10 year old news. Why is it presented as a new thing? This was documented in major newspapers online in 2008, for example. The content creators are searching 16 year old news articles for content, lol.
Try another search engine
Thank you for having the courage to stand up to big tech Google and say what we all feel.
I work in SEO and I've absolutely noticed the difference. It's essentially meaningless to even try and optimize your site at this point because you end up with generic slop that isn't engaging to customers and then you lose out to people who can just buy their way to the top results anyhow. As a company, we've had to move away from SEO and more into other types of promotion just to make our clients competitive. We're basically more of a traditional marketing company now than a digital one.
SEO is honestly killing a lot of the internet. I had to learn it as part of my marketing degree so I get the benefit
But when you’re just looking for a chicken recipie and have to scroll through 10 pages of story behind the recipe to appease SEO so their page shows up higher, it’s contributing now to the enshittification of the internet
@anthonydelfino6171 SEO is not killing the internet, SEO is a byproduct of Google and their industry. Google is killing the internet.
@@anthonydelfino6171 SEO is merely a byproduct of Google's market model. It's a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
It’s always been talked about ”SEO dying” since its inception but I think with Google’s response to generative AI, SEO is actually dead. Google has confirmed links are no longer a top 3 ranking factor (whatever human element there was to SEO no longer exists) so basically all their algorithm does is assess your content. Everyone and their mother uses GPT, and so basically you have 4 ads, and then different GPT responses, with affiliate links. It’s dog shit and they don’t care enough to fix it because they are no longer an innovative company.
SEO's just react to what the algorithm rewards. Blame Google for not providing the right incentives.
this era of just brutal honesty on tech is amazing
keep pushing these companies are slipping out of control fast
Using Duck go searcher now. Way better
@@beebeedeeie 😍
@@verthandijaly the love emoji 😅
They got rid of that whole "don't be evil" motto & became in fact evil.
Was looking to see who else remembered their motto.
totally yep. except it became 'we are now GREEDY , And EVIL'
they lived long enough to see themselves become the villain
How much were you paid to hold up that particular NEWSPAPER 📰 🤔
I am unsubscribing because of your greed.
Bye.
@nazakatkhan4329 He was paid probably nothing for that newspaper. He most likely got it from the side of the street or a grocery store. If this is all it takes to trigger you, then you live a sad life.
My personal favorite. I type in "Lowes" or "Walmart" and I get the sponsored spot directly above the actual results. I guess get paid for sponsors even when it's exactly what I already wanted.
I understand phone reviews pay bills, but THIS is the type of content that is worth subscribing to.
I honestly never really noticed this I’m glad you brought it up. I subconsciously scroll through the sponsors and forgot google didn’t used to be like this.
Really? You didn't remember? This had to be pointed out to you for you to recall? This is why corporations are winning and we are losing: because this is the level of intelligence we're dealing with here.
Really? You didn't remember? This had to be pointed out to you for you to recall? This is why corporations are winning and we are losing: because this is the level of intelligence we're dealing with here.
Really? You didn't remember? This had to be pointed out to you for you to recall? This is why corporations are winning and we are losing: because this is the level of intelligence we're dealing with here.
Wow so rude to people ....
@@OlgaRykovYes, definitely not a tech person 😂
Ive noticed this the last few years, i used to love to google things and go on deep dives but now i try by best to use google as little as possible
Have you noticed how bad youtube suggested videos are now? It's an endless loop of content I've already viewed, or videos from channels I'm already subscribed to. There's no longer a youtube rabbit hole to go down - there's almost no related videos to what I'm viewing other than clickbait content farm crap.
@@accountname-tu2omI would love to notice that but I'm waiting for the Deep dive video on why the TH-cam app is the worst piece of garbage software I've ever fucking used in my life
Same for TH-cam search. I searched for "Hello Future Me", a writing advice channel. His channel would automatically appeared on the top bar, but now all I got is some new song from Korean boyband
What do you use instead?
@@SPQR_14 duck duck go is great
I just opened up comments to look for alternatives, but didn't find any, could somebody advice anything that can replace google?
I am sick of these ads too
One thing that has been deteriorating even more in my opinion is Google Lens. I used to be able to photograph a plant, a mineral or whatever and get shown articles about the exact thing I was looking for. Nowadays I photograph a larimar stone and it just goes "Blue Stone, uhmmmm you want aquamarine? Because, uhmmm you know, I could find more ads for this"
Feel you
Enshittification at work again.
They show you their product's capability at first, start introducing ads next and before you know it, the whole thing turns shitty and then they want you to pay for it to use it like it once was
I tried it last week to find a manga and it gave me ads for drawing classes and webtoons
Stark
Google's bad in every way remove from your life. Use Ducks duck instead it works just like google did before losing their way plus it won't track or sell your data either.
The phrase “you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” fits perfectly on Google ...
Especially if you compare it with the last good search engine that was before google the altavista.
I definitely lost respect for Google over the years there products have definitely gotten worse over the years
“Don’t be evil,” according to Google. How ironic.
@@DeterminedTorres That was the motto of the original founders. They are long gone and the motto was formally retired not long after they moved on.
Man, remember when Google used to be a cool company...
Although I believe this is more the main problem of the internet in a capitalist system. The internet and capitalism simply don't align since scarcity isn't a thing on the internet unless it is made artificially so. And everything revolving AI makes this even more clear.
To me it feels like one of the biggest challenges we face in our modern society. How to continue our ways when scarcity gets eradicated more and more each day. I fear it will get a whole lot worse in the near future...
Just make sure to not get claimed like linus did a while ago
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
What do you mean?
@@zno3177 Linus made a video on how to make TH-cam ‘ad-free’ and it got taken down by Google
Wait what happened to Linus?
@@MrBelangrik His video got taken down for showing how to make TH-cam ad-free
I think Google just doesn't care how the user experience is affected. Their only goal is to profit . Awesome job. Thanks!
What a time!
Microsoft is pushing more users towards Linux, Google is pushing users towards Opera/Firefox/Brave
2 of which use chromium aka google's engine
@@keit99yea but they dont have the same negatives as googles own product
@@keit99 Fox is also not that great. It's great but we should be a bit positive however it's also sometimes making weird choices not in our favor. But yes it's dna is not with Chromium. Brave is ad-free but still chromium.
@@keit99 atleast we don't see ads in brave
DuckDuckGo, while not being fantastic, is at least free of ads and trackers.
I had a small shop. And even when you gave the full name of my shop u couldn’t find me on google. Ads are to expensive as well its crazy. I been praying some one will release a video like this. Back in the days u could find anything. Now u find what google wants you to.
Yep. And 'google fu' is dead for much the same reason: if you can't format our search string to account for the current quarter's SEO tricks, you are completely lost for all but the most simple search queries.
Reminds me of my instagram experience.
Since I have an Airsoft related service, IG keeps shadowbanning my page because I’m “against TOC” but they seem to have no problem if I pay money to promote the same post that’s “in violation”.
They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. It’s just greed.
Same problem Here. etsy, temu, amazon...
Or it gives me a result that's not even in my city or my country! 😂
So how do you advertise on the internet
If you run a business.?
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My GF has a QuickBooks qualification. She has done online advertising.
..
But she wants to increase her online presence?
Depending on the subject, they intentionally suppress what you are looking for. It makes the search engine completely irrelevant.
Search for 'Harris vote cheating', it takes you to anti-Trump articles 😂
Just realize something with the sponsered message. Arun usually says if a message is sponsered witt a big sponsered text but he didn't and made the text smaller just like google is doing!
I can't even find decent images through Google now. Thank you for getting right to the point in this vid btw.
Google images is really bad now, and not the least because of AI results. I don't think AI is a bad tech but I should be able to filter it out.
@@Argumemnon What's annoying is that if you use the safe search options to avoid running into p07n, you'll get nearly nothing of what you're trying to find.
Nowadays, it seems like you're baited into searching for naughty material because of how weird the censorship works. And reporting nasty images or ads to Google is a waste of time. You get the same robot response followed by your complaint being turned down.
@@Argumemnon But then that demeans AI art and imagery, and the anti AI separates win. We must accept that AI IS reality and valid, and that means that there is no separation between art and ai art. Only then can we can finally start copyrighting AI art. Thankfully Trump is very pro AI and business.
@@Argumemnonyeah Google images already started going bad before AI. Rather when Google introduced Google Lens.
3:55 I used to think that I had some issues searching for what I was looking for. I now understand that its Google's way of marketing to me
Cooking recipes sites are literally the worst content on the Internet. Not only do they ramble on forever about... Stuff? Before getting to the recipe... The amount of ads that are specifically designed to make them hard to scroll past and obnoxiously intrusive makes the entire site basically unreadable.
It's so bad people might have to actually reinvent the cookbook.
German ones are actually fine
That is American recipe sites. Content created in other countries is far better.
@@Venvaneless
Was about to comment the same thing.
The biggest sites I know have maybe one paragraph of fluff, sometimes even nothing, and then get straight to it.
And when its smaller sites they usually have a "skip to recipe" button.
So true. They always have a stupid video playing over the content and most of them ramble about some nonsense before getting to the actual recipe.
Nah Google is just simply cooked💀
17:12min video with an ad every 3min. Most of them unskipable. Google is overdoing it with ads.
Then, get an adblocker
If you're on pc/desktop/Mac, use a non-Chromium browser with uBlock Origin.
If you're on an android based tv, use "Smart Tube"
And if you're on an android phone, use "Revanced"
(If you're on iOS, don't get your hopes up)
thank god for revanced
Thank god for ad block
use brave browser, no ads if you go to youtube web page. The youtube app is better but no ads.
brave browser
Absolutely insane, google has gone downhill for sure
Mrwhosetheboss inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.
so how do you reckon they make profit for providing the great service you desire? A genuine question. I am not for a multibillion-dollar company but certainly not against it either
You haven’t even watched the video!! It’s 18 minutes old and you commented 17 minutes ago, why lie?
@@JohnMarston-lo5qkI dont give a shit about their profits I only care about my experience with their servives
@@JohnMarston-lo5qkyou called someone the rword on another comment, so your opinions don't matter
Something I’ve noticed that I think should be ILLEGAL is even when searching for a SPECIFIC site, Google will present me with the advert of that site first and COLLECT REVENUE even though they didn’t direct me to that site, I had already INTENDED to go to that site.
yes, but then to be fair the site chooses which keywords their ad will appear for and if you are paying for clicks to a domain keyword that already ranks, then you are not really keeping your eye on the ball
@@RandomButBeautiful so you’re saying that these websites are choosing their own domain name as a keyword to keep themselves above other adverts that would also choose their name.
So they’re choosing to pay, and I can’t really blame Google
@@PigPenSnaps the way those ads work is that you choose the keywords your ad appears on. I am not sure if they think they are competing with someone who would outrank them, or just including their own name in their ad spend without checking their organic rank for their own name first. I would probably blame stupidity.
@@RandomButBeautiful They have to bid on their own brand and domain keywords, because if they don't, someone else will, and then half of their traffic will go to their competitor instead, or worse, to a phishing scam site pretending to be them.
@@Sergparkour Sounds like some kind of forced tribute to the mafia.
It's absolutely horrendous now, searching for anything from shopping to news just brings back results from sponsored ads with anything Google deems "inappropriate" filters then out completely...
And now TH-cam has become the same rubbish too!
10:25 this explains SOOO MUCH! I always get triggered like “why the heck is there an entire book before the thing I need” I understand… 🤯
Ikr
no replies?
Wunba!!
Yo wsg wunba, also I just use chat gpt at this point even the free version now is better than Google 👌
New video when?
my biggest pet peeve is searching something simple like “show season release date” then having to read an entire summary of the show all the reviews and a bunch of other things i didn’t ask for before finally getting my answer towards the end of the article.
...or that it is some obviously foreign language person who copied it and the grammar isn't even right plus, they NEVER give you the date (or the wrong date)
@@scpatl4now Yesssss i get so angry after digging thru a article for the answer and only seeing “it was announced in 202X” and no release date when the article is literally titled ____ new season release
Fr it's so annoying and I feel like it's getting even worse because now they're even faking the titles. A while ago the first part of the page actually said "What is *show*?" but now they already name that part "When does season ... release?" and still start explaining what it is before getting to the point and then somewhere 2 miles down you find the small "Release date:" even though the title suggested it would be at the top...
@@ptm_tobiSo you found an actual date? 😮 When I searched for something like that I too got the useless summaries then I didn't even get a date or anything in the end. It's frustrating
I hate that too. I mostly do a quick Ctrl+F text search for a word that I would expect. In your case something like "2024", "release", "announce". You can also just try a few letters of the word in case they wrote "announing" instead of "announced". If I don't get any hits I go to another site.
I used to enjoy shopping online because I felt like the search gave me access to more stores and also I could consciously choose to shop with smaller more independent retail businesses rather than the big chain stores, but it's almost impossible to do now. The search results are completely dominated by the big chain retailers, and you can scroll for pages and pages and not find any. It’s like hitting a brick wall and it’s taken the enjoyment out of it. I used to really enjoy finding a good independent retailer with good prices, good service and sometimes more unique higher quality products.
Has anyone found good options for this? I've ocassionaly found some things on Ebay (used clothes, finding 100% cotton is ridiculous other than vintage) but unless I know the exact brand name of something I want, I can barely find anything I'm looking for when shopping. Amazon is a mess and Google search reviews are either the same companies over and over, scams, or items not related to my search.
And if it's not some gigantic retailer, it's drop shipped TRASH.
Exactly,I’ve been wanting to find some quality products from smaller independent retailers,but every recommendation that comes up is usually one or two big retailers or of course endless recommendations for products from Amazon 😅
Trying to look for products in Canada is especially bad, as the prices are all over the place (mostly US), most of the offered products aren't available in or to ship to Canada, and the selection offered is mostly dropshipping. Unless I already know the company, I just go and look in the store.
@@vf1923 Yeah, the shipping cost out of the US is _terrible._ It's really bad getting things into Canada as well. NOt sure why, but it sucks.
The is that people usually don't know that there are other options like Duck Duck Go and Yandex. I switched entirely to Yandex now.😊
14 years in search engine advertising. This dude is bang on.
almost the same here, i would rather fill in pot holes on the roads or dig holes on a farm that deal with google bs anymore
I’ve gradually started hating the internet since 2012 or so. What you describe Google doing at the end of making a product consumers like then making one advertisers like and in the end having a product that sucks for everyone but Google is EXACTLY what I’ve felt about social media platforms for a decade now.
I joined Instagram because I love looking at photos, but now it’s TikTok. If I wanted TikTok, I’d use TikTok. Pinterest used to be great for finding ideas but now it feels like Amazon with all the shopping ads.
They all gave us products we wanted and then completely destroyed them for profit while telling users “we’re always looking to improve YOUR experience” 🙄
There was a golden era for the Internet but for over a decade now it's literally turned to trash as every feature and option is treated as an opportunity to extract money from the user. We are literally living in the age of the black mirror.
Pinterest is also flooded with shitty AI now. A few years ago, you could find lots of great creativity, but now it's all lazy junk that looks the same.
I'm glad you mentioned what has become my single least favourite thing on the internet: Affiliate links, and the countless adverstisements disguised as "articles" that abuse them.
Finding something resembling an actual review of something is painfully difficult because of this, and trying to find comparative reviews / roundups (ie. "best of 2024") is just straight up impossible; EVERY single search result is an ad disguised as an article.
If someone made me Dictator of the Internet, my first law would be requiring every article containing even a single affiliate link to have the words "THIS IS AN ADVERSTISEMENT, NOT A REVIEW" plastered on top of each page in giant unmissable font. The way affiliate links are being used today is nothing short of fraud, and should _absolutely_ be illegal.
I pay you tube premium but still i get the tubers sponsor ads in the video .
This is true. Once I searched something on google and I found a link COMPLETELY different from what I was searching and thought "What's going on? I didn't search for this."
Even if you report bad/fraud ads or even fraud content on youtube, the reported ads are not even taken down!
same with Facebook marketplace. Ive seen some sh*t there
And yet I often can't even see my own comments
Same
I do SEO for a living, and I cannot tell you how many people either ask or complain about why results are so bad lately. Between inconsistent AI results, sponsored links, and outright bad results, it isn't surprising that people are slowly transitioning away from Google.
I've found chatGPT gives me a better answer to almost any question that isn't "dominos lynnwood". Google is mostly just my review/number/direction getting app, not to find the answer to an actual question.
transitioning to who? what is better than google Ignoring the data collection and privacy and solely talking about search
@@Faizan29353 currently, not really anyone is better than Google. But data shows a (reasonably small) shift of users moving towards Bing and DuckDuckGo for their primary forms of organic search.
@@Faizan29353 DuckDuckGo (bing but with slightly more privacy) and Kagi (paid, but no ads) are two trendy alternatives that come to mind.
However, if your solution to google results being bad is to add 'reddit' after every search, don't worry - Google is paying Reddit to make your experience worse. Google and Reddit made an deal earlier this year, where Reddit allows Google to train its AI on reddit posts. As a part of this deal, Reddit is not allowing other search engines to index reddit posts. This means legitimate search engines won't be able to find any reddit threads made after cca April this year.
Transition?
I've been comparing Edge Search results and Google's recently and the truth is, Google search still brings in the most relevant results
The reputation of Google search is so bad now that I often see people in our local Facebook group posting questions like "what time is the ferry", "what is the fastest route to x" which at one time would have been an obvious thing to Google but now it's easier to just ask other humans on FB even with the delay in getting an answer.
It was great to see your message "it's easier to just ask other humans", because 35 years ago that's just what we did! Any event worth checking out was posted on (1) newspaper, (2) radio, or (3) coworkers/friends/neighbors/relatives. That last category was the most important because it was their opinion that carried the most influence. They were "free influencers" who had nothing to gain financially from telling you how they really felt, so their opinions were mostly organic and unfiltered. We were better "connected" to our world then, than we are now.
Try Duck duck go it works just like Google used too. Plus it doesn't track your movements or sell your data like Google does either. Been using it for years now and i'm a genuinely happy user.
Google's bad in every way remove it from your life. Use Ducks duck instead it works just like google did before losing their way plus it won't track or sell your data either.
Google's bad in every way just remove it from your life. Use Ducks duck instead it works just like google did before losing their way plus it won't track or sell your data either.
what about chatgpt?
Super valuable content thank you 💅✨✌️
5:30 This item is available for Adoption, Not for Sale 💀
Like😂
Someone please adopt that CHAIR 😢 6:22
tf does that even mean lol
@@_Admin my guess is that they want it to sound like you do something good.
@@Niki_SchreiberI just googled it and it’s effectively the same thing as owning an NFT, except they mail you a mockup “certificate of authenticity” alongside a printout of the listing photo
It's obvious to me that tech monopolies MUST be broken down, the internet is rotting in front of our eyes and competitors are badly needed
Google doesn't have monopoly for search though
@@Dozman01 I mean their market share is probably 99%.
In the past it was viable to create a film company, TV network, search engine, cellphone manufacturing, video hosting, to compete with the market leader. Today there's no way a startup can compete with companies like TH-cam or Disney. Just imagine all the businessmen looking for ideas, and there's certain industries that are off-limits because they've already been cornered off. We let it get out of hand and now we live in this weird timeline.
@@One.Zero.One101Reminds me of a quote I read that said “The future will be shaped by psychopaths and creatives.”
You Either Die a Hero or Live Long Enough to See Yourself Become the Villain
Just 1min ago
me
Biden?
Went from "don't be evil" to "D̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ be evil" real quick
Went from "don't be evil" to "D̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ be evil" real quick.
To exclude Wiki sites from search results, add -wiki to your search.
To exclude corporate sites, add -corporate and -terms (since these words often appear on corporate sites).
To exclude educational sites, add -edu.
To exclude government sites, add -gov.
By excluding these, you can reveal more personal and independent websites.
I'll be honest, I've been using adblocks for so long now that I wasn't even aware of the sponsor issue until I specifically turned off all adblocks just to see what it looks like with all the sponsors.
It's jarring whenever I see a coworker's web browser, lots of space occupied by ads, pop up and Google search looking awful.
It's also funny to see how they react when I put ad block on their's and how cleaner the experience becomes
same lol
Google is working on a way to block adblockers.
what I mean is you won't have access to any website if you have an adblocker turned on
@@THE__MATRIX23people will move to firefox just like people moved from yahoo to google
@@THE__MATRIX23then I will use an obscure search engine
Tech influencers should stop focusing on gadgets and move towards user experience (easiness, longevity, long term costs, ecosystem, security, right to repair etc.). This requires deeper knowledge and focusing on software and services. I am glad seeing baby steps towards this direction.
I get the impression you're a Louis Rossman fan, or if you haven't heard of him yet, would be once you see his right to repair advocacy.
Tech influencers: well this phone doesn’t have that phone’s feature that no one uses, and the cameras are great. 15 minutes video
Thank you pointing this out. For more than a year I've been venting myself to all my friends how terrible Google is and they don't really understand it. But its a regular occurrence that for a given search 50% of the page is ads, and all of the search results are SEO optimized articles written by vendors who are either promoting themselves or are talking about something they have authority in. The results are garbage! And the crazy thing is the internet is SO vast someone must have made a high quality page. It's just that it never surfaces beyond the ads and SEO hacks.
The irony of this video ending with an ad for a solution to the video topic is not lost on me
Whenever I google something, I just automatically blank out the first stuff I see and then start to read more intently after 1-2 seconds of scrolling. What a disaster...
Finally it seems like someone in the tech industry care about this problem
Problem with Google Search is getting worse for a variety of reasons. I noticed that when I want to search for videos within Google, I don't get "Videos" anymore. I can do "Image" search, "New", etc..., but "Videos" disappeared when I search through Brave browser staring the other day, although it's there when using Chrome (of course) and Firefox. It's like they're actively forcing you to use their competitors. I might have to start using Yahoo or Bing out of desperation!
And google is so bombarded by ads that i switched to bing it atleast gives the answer first but from its “copilot”
Arun's one of the best, if not the best
He has enough money he can criticize without fearing the possible negative consequences (economically speaking)
The company that I work for got hit with some pretty nasty malware recently all because an employee Google searched for a certain document they were looking for. They thought they found what they were looking for but it turned out to be malware from a site that was using SEO to push it's results to the top. Absolutely insane that things like this can be pushed to the top of the search results.
This is one of those cases where these web sites should be responsible for such things. Same thing with facebook/instagram. You cant just play 'free speech' card and boost criminals and share profit.
@@denizersoz7012 Yes I see Google's dumb decisions costing people so much money unnecessarily.
@@denizersoz7012 I doubt that censorship is an answer for that, but don't they have an AI? Why not using it for search results as well? It's really hilarious how much better ChatGPT is compared to G-search these days if you have specific questions.
My parents got scammed by searching for an airline's support number and getting some random company that charged them $200 for rebooking.
At some point Google needs to be held liable for the harm they are causing. Promoting terrible scam ads or dangerous misinformation on TH-cam is also a huge issue.
What frustrates me with both google and YT lately is, when I enter search words in my native language (Dutch), I get search results that are English websites or videos with their text translated in Dutch.
Which is really frustrating when I am looking for localised information or Dutch spoken videos.
I love how the editor takes the time to do all these fancy animations. They really give your videos a nice touch.
And illustrate unambiguously WHAT is happening!
And illustrate unambiguously WHAT is happening!
And illustrate unambiguously WHAT is happening! Another nice little Google thing where it doesn't post your comment after 3 times 😑
And then refreshes all unposted comments minutes later, making it seem like I'm a mental spammer while leaving my comment unposted as if I didn't just post my comment so I repost again and again for my comment to post.
@@mastermill79 lmao
Google abandoned "Don't be evil" long ago, now it's all about "Do the right thing..... for Google."
It's a trend. It happened with OpenAI, it happened with Google, and many others.
"Transparent and in the academic realm" is a load of BS now.
Removing the "don't be evil" motto was at least an honest maneuver.
Unfortunately, the bigger companies get, a financially competitive advantage and market share seems to be much more important than moral integrity. I can't think of a current example that doesn't exemplify this.
It's more profitable to manipulate consumers than to act in the consumers' best intentions.
Thanks for using your clout to bring light to this, Mrwhosetheboss! This is really important content!
In a nutshell: Enshittification.
On top of that, they are aggressively anti-user. I noticed more and more over the years that I can search for something specific that I know exists, and it doesn’t matter how expertly I craft my keywords, because I’ve been doing this since the 90s and I know how to craft keywords, they refused to show me the result that I know exist. I sometimes have to dig into the second or third page before I get even close.
One thing I figured out a few years ago was to avoid the "Top 10" videos on TH-cam when looking for products, like printers for example.
The channels basically pretend that they reviewed the items, but all the footage they use is stock footage, and text is from the product website. And every printer would be in a different room, on a different table, and you would never actually see the TH-camr in the same room as the product.
I figured it out pretty quickly, but I think a lot of people get fooled by it.
genius
Also all the tech fixes that copy the same content. You search for something like how to network unlock your phone. You get 20 results that give the same unhelpful advice, in the exact same wording, in the exact same order of steps. It's like copying your classmate's homework.
I really loved the fact he put his sponsored ad at the last in the video to really show how much he wants this to change
i love how you are so honest, no favors youre brutally honest
yeah i love this, i used to just like him now i admire him tbh. THANKS YOU'RE A BOSS.
@@mzhd too much, most people end up only being critical of small or Asian companies because they want favors from the tech giants
They've destroyed Search and youtube with non stop ads. Not going to pay for premium so starting to watch less and less, listening to more podcasts and even starting to go back towards TV viewing
TV's got way more ads than TH-cam😂
Well done for expressing the frustration I have had with Google's results recently.
Noticed all of these issues: Lots of ads before results, updated but old lists, almost incomprehensible product descriptions etc
I've basically developed an internal filter to ignore headline stuff and and to scroll down past the 'fold line' (learned a new term!) to find the relevant details.
General enshxxification, evidently.
I appreciate a more consumer-focused YT channel covering this. As a content creator ourselves, it's SO frustrating dealing (competing) with Forbes in the software review category. More people need to hear this.
An interesting bit that you didn't cover was the $60 million agreement that Google signed with Reddit which essentially raised Reddits rankings in results as well. Reddit has been going downhill and yet now they are almost always the #1 result.
It's a bummer and hoping they get back to their roots and start prioritizing the smaller sites that are actually focusing on quality and research.
Some Forbes lists are useful however. The Forbes 30 under 30 for example is often the first appearance of fraudsters and white collar criminals.
woaah, i didn’t know this! so THAT explains why i see reddit all the time despite not searching for it. crazy how much of our experience online and in this world is controlled.
100% accurate! I've seen shady websites often bidding on branded keywords, which redirects to shady sites, as you mentioned, Google takes zero accountability for who shows up in sponsored.
me too
UsE YANDEX for anything regarding culture and politics they do not memory hole anything in fact they even index the way back machine! When it comes to politics or culture it is the only search engine that gives you the truth even if it hurts your feelings