Man, Google really does suck now. It feels nearly impossible to get something like a how-to deep in the Debian FAQs to come up, as it mostly surfaces this auto-generated SEO crap
By design. The longer you’re Googling, the more ads they can sell.
…Ben Gomes – a long-tenured googler who helped define the company during its best years – lost a fight with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist turned manager whose tactic for increasing the number of search queries (and thus the number of ads the company could show to searchers) was to decrease the quality of search. That way, searchers would have to spend more time on Google before they found what they were looking for.
By design. The longer you’re Googling, the more ads they can sell.
Oh I know, I posted Zitron’s article here on Lemmy myself just the other day lmao. Part of why it’s on my mind.
Worst timeline? Could be…