[festive-minsky]

“declining quality” means current google vs past google, not other search engines

[bostik]

In 2014, I was cursing the shitty search results of GDrive - and asked aloud why can't a company known for their search engine make all their search systems equally good.

It's 2022, and Google search is just as shitty as their GDrive search.

[jpalomaki]

This is also not a fair comparison, because Internet is changing constantly.

[tyingq]

Seems fair to me. They did improve quality for quite a long time. The quality only seemed to start dipping when shareholder expectations started driving what SERP pages look like.

Or, roughly, "The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users"

[tetris11]

Yeah, and large near-monopolies grow complacent.