Google gets search results so hilariously (or horrifically) wrong so often that I stopped using it, ever. If ddg doesn't have what I need, I'll ask on matrix or IRC or literally anywhere else.
Google removed nuance from search terms and results a long time ago, and sometime after 2014 took to flat out lying about when pages were first seen. This makes it completely worthless for research, education, and basically anything. I was going to say looking up a phone number for a business, but Google maps is the faster way to get a valid result for that, as it stands.
So, after spending a decade and a half becoming the Kleenex of search engines, they made themselves just as disposable, for the name of ad revenue.
I mean, that is literally why the exist? They only provide a search service in order to generate ad revenue… if they didn’t have ad revenue, they would just shut down search.
when they started they were competing against yahoo and altavista and others which had less useful results. Their service has akways been about giving good results. Now that they have results arguably worse than 1998 search engines, their ads aren't going to pay the bills for much longer. In fact it already seems to be that Google ads aren't creating as much revenue as it used to for advertisers.
