[amitav1]

Google is one the most important institution of the Internet era. Talk all you'd like about "OoOoH tHeY aDvErTiSe" or "tHeiR aLgOrItHm Is GeTtInG wOrSe" but at the end of the day, Google still brought knowledge to more people than anything before (apart from maybe Gutenberg).

[boelboel]

More knowledge, more misinformation. Hard to know if a world without google would be better or worse.

[simianwords]

Pessimistic way to look at things. If you think misinformation is at the same level as information then you need to give this some thought.

[amitav1]

I mean, to steelman their point, there's a lot more misinformation than information on Google. I still personally think that it's a worthwhile trade though