The funny moment of all this is how Google is becoming the type of search browser that existed in 2000. Altavista, webcrawler, yahoo, and others were the default search engines, but then they started to let advertisers override the search results to be inserted in the search results. Initially, the results were clearly delineated, but over time, they fell in and the note of it being an “ad” fell away.
To be fair, the internet is being conflated into a platform to drive people into walled gardens, and google is trying to deal with helping people into them.
I wondered how long it would take for the site to descend into the dark patterns that caused google to ascend.
To be fair, the internet is being conflated into a platform to drive people into walled gardens, and google is trying to deal with helping people into them.
I wondered how long it would take for the site to descend into the dark patterns that caused google to ascend.