>Nobody's going to wade through mountains of crap and ads to find a nugget of useful information anymore. Google actually has an interest to have moderately useful but not great results because the faster a user finds what they need, the fewer ad impressions they generate. This practice won't fly from now on.

If Google just sat on a poor search algorithm somebody would come up and overthrow them - duck duck go or about a million others. But they weren't able to do that. Why? Because nobody was able to come up with a better search engine so far.

And now when it's obvious that search engines are past and LLMs are a much better way to go Google is racing with everyone to it.

Everything else is just a wacky conspiracy theory without any substance to it, but invoking magic words "evil corporation" does have an effect regardless of the matter discussed.

Pathetic.