HACKER Q&A
📣 nothrowaways

Is Google search team being sabotaged?


Or is it just me?

I feel that search results in Google are being deliberately annoying.


  👤 speedgoose Accepted Answer ✓
It’s called the SEO industry.

👤 mikewarot
It's the incentive structures at play that are forcing the continually worsening of search quality. It doesn't matter what their immediate management wants, what the shareholders want seems to be more profit this quarter, and higher stock prices.

👤 stathibus
If it was just search that was broken and needed fixing, then a competitor would have stomped google search into the dust already. The reality is that the internet itself is now 99.99% shit thanks to the SEO insanity that Google created.