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.The parts of the open web you access from Google/search (most of it) is almost entirely made-for-google' ranking algorithims.The situation is worse than it is on closed social media, including Google's YouTube.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.Google is literally content made by uninterested copywriters exclusively for Google rankings.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.I often resort to searches in a smaller language, where economic incentives are 100X smaller than English.Google created incentives for littering the web with garbage. Then they took away incentives for anyone else to even bother.Google killed the thing that gave them life. They gave Vince Serf a sinecure and a hows-your-mother for the rest.Thieves.