There sure are a lot of “Google enshittifies Google” articles lately.
There sure are a lot of “Google enshittifies Google” articles lately.
They are trying to keep up with Microsoft.
isn’t this a good change though?
10yrs ago if have said yes… however, I feel like page 1 is only ads and images to ads and sponsored content so I end up on page 2 anyway, so now I have to click a button.
I remember the time page 2 of google was equivalent to an underground crypt.
How the times deteriorate
It’s actually a good change, IMHO. You can just click directly on page 10 for anything that might be related to your original search.
I suspect it is so that they can place ads / AI at the top of every page
Rare case of a good change coming from google
Literally didn’t even know it had it? Is this only in the google app? I always remember pages on the site.
I’m cynically viewing this as not a positive. I assume this is so they can make pages 2, 3 and so on as spammy as page 1.
Not at first, obviously. You don’t boil that frog on high heat.
You throw out a second page with a cute little text ad off to the side, then 1 or 2 at the top, then a mid-page ad. Maybe some suggested content.Instead of having to scroll through a page’s worth of ads to get to semi-relevant results with a gem hidden in them, it’ll be a pages worth of ads for your semi-relevant results per page, and maybe what you were looking for 4 or 5 pages in.
Google used to be good. They ‘know’ what people are looking for. So they’ll probably hire someone familiar with gambling to figure out a minimum dispersion of relevant results on the pages, to keep people using the service and scrolling past ads. … I used to remember this. Variable-ratio reward schedule?
