Yep. Starting in 2019 the Ads department internally defeated the Search department and successfully degraded the quality of the algorithm in order to keep people searching.
This is great! Thank you! I had heard of this exact story from third-hand sources and this is much more detailed. Ed Zitron is great and I have to deal with Google search for work a lot, and I’ll probably share this article with people I know who do similar jobs
Yep. Starting in 2019 the Ads department internally defeated the Search department and successfully degraded the quality of the algorithm in order to keep people searching.
I just posted about this above before I read your comment. Here is the article that describes what happened:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
This is great! Thank you! I had heard of this exact story from third-hand sources and this is much more detailed. Ed Zitron is great and I have to deal with Google search for work a lot, and I’ll probably share this article with people I know who do similar jobs