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by acdha 1231 days ago
It really goes back to the toxic incentives of ad sales. Google wants you to stay on Google.com so they get more chances to show ads. They only care about low quality results if it means you stop using them, which for years wasn’t a serious risk but can change relatively quickly if alternatives arise. They should know, given how rapidly they pulled users away from Alta Vista, Yahoo!, et al. 20 years ago.