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Back in my day
(lemy.lol)
BlueSky Post.
Transcript.
If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
Google was a "disrupter"
Which means they burnt investor money for years to deliver a great product while not making any profit.
Once they gain market share and are the default, enshitification begins and people eventually wonder why they're still using it.
The search engine wasn't disruptive in the sense that it was subsidized, it was disruptive in the sense that it didn't try to be the portal to everything in the internet (as opposed to, say, Yahoo) but offered a clean page.