Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder
"Search results plagued with ‘clickbait’ would have been an understatement 20 years ago.<p>The parts of the open web you access from Google/search (most of it) is almost entirely made-for-google' ranking algorithims.<p>The situation is worse than it is on closed social media, including Google's YouTube.<p>Professional YouTubers are also making content for rankings above all, but the fact that it's their own face/voice keeps some of the rot at bay.<p>Google is literally content made by uninterested copywriters exclusively for Google rankings.<p>I was recently looking for general travel advice on Google. I found it completely impossible. The content is all written by people (or ais) that had never visited. Everything reads like a middle school essay.<p>I often resort to searches in a smaller language, where economic incentives are 100X smaller than English.<p>Google created incentives for littering the web with garbage. Then they took away incentives for anyone else to even bother.<p>Google killed the thing that gave them life. They gave Vince Serf a sinecure and a hows-your-mother for the rest.<p>Thieves.