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by CasperDern 1633 days ago
It's actually an interesting discussion. After thinking about it for a bit, it seems like Google is a search company fronting for it's own ad business. In the early days their core technology probably was search but at this point it's likely adtech. At this point it doesn't matter if their search is bad (it's probably better if it is bad, as more time is spent seeing ads) as long as they are the dominant/default search engine for the general public.

There are a lot of opportunities for a better search engines but very little incentive invest into making it so.