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Why Google Search Isn't So Useful Anymore - Medium

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2023 07:05 ET , Source: NewsService

Google has become less useful when it comes to finding high-quality information on the internet.

Good old Google never ends to surprise me (for bad lately).

Nowadays when we google some questions, we get ads, irrelevant content optimized for SEO, or long YouTube videos that don’t have the answer to our question.

Over the past years, Google has changed and it’s not the search engine we used to love. Here’s what happened to Google Search.

How the internet used to be

When the internet first started it was a completely different place from what we know now.

The internet was full of independent resources, and blogs that had a lot of useful information, but with one single problem — it was a mess.

And that’s how Google conquered the game. Back then, Google provided the best way to find anything you wanted. Google’s job was to dig up the necessary information in the fast-growing internet world.

But then things changed when social media entered the game.

The most interesting conversations, ideas, news, and trends began to take place on platforms like Facebook, Reddit, Myspace, and Twitter. The main goal of these platforms was (and still is) to keep the attention of their audience.

And that was a problem for Google.

You see, sites like Facebook or Instagram are not designed to work with the Google search engine. Why?

  • Most of its content is not searchable
  • They encourage users to use their platform from their apps
  • You need to log in to their platform to have full access to their...


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