If you’re wondering if Google search is not as good as it used to be, you’re not alone. Try searching for anything meaningful these days—a product review, a technical question, even basic factual information—and you’ll likely find yourself swimming through a sea of AI-generated spam, affiliate marketing garbage, and Reddit threads that somehow rank higher than actual expert sources. Want proof? Try doing the same search on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Searx, or even Yandex. The results are often vastly different, and increasingly, they’re better.
What you’re witnessing isn’t just your imagination or nostalgia for simpler times. It’s the documented collapse of what was once the internet’s most trusted gatekeeper, and the cause isn’t some inevitable decay of the web. It’s corporate panic, greed, and a series of deliberate decisions that prioritized short-term revenue over the very quality that made Google indispensable in the first place.
Continue reading… “The Death of Google Search: Why Google’s Results Are Now Worse Than Its Competitors”
