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by creshal 877 days ago
Because they keep optimizing for ad clicks over accuracy, and at some point you hit a threshold where people just no longer feel like they're getting the data they want. At first it was one ad, and one or two clickbait content farms on page one, and people didn't mind, but these days it's 2-3 ads and 90+% content farms, and people are really wondering why they bother.

It's why gen z and alpha – who've never experienced a search engine prioritizing their needs over ad revenue – tend to go straight to youtube or other sites (and now AI), because search engines in their experience have never worked.