[mohanmcgeek]

> Google was better ten years ago because search was an easier problem to solve back then

Has anyone considered the possibility that all this Machine learning and AI models is what made Google and YouTube searches worse?

[JohnFen]

I strongly suspect that's a very large part of what is making everything worse. Or, at least, there does seem to be a correlation in time between the implementation of ML and the degradation of the quality of results.

[mohanmcgeek]

I wouldn't call it so much the implementation of ML but rather from when they decided they were an AI/ML company.

The Amazon recommendations engine, the poster child of ML in 2014 isn't any good at recommending products that I actually want to buy either.