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by PaulHoule 4092 days ago
At this point Google is not winning because it's search results are good (have you used Google recently?), it is winning because it makes almost 10x as much revenue as other search engines do per view -- at that rate any other search engine is running a charity.
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It's really pretty weird. Google certainly has the capabilities to offer a great search experience, but it's very incosistent.

For example after learning i like the results of a certain journals ,their personalization engine offered me those in releated searches. and usually i chose content from them.

But somehow, after some time, Google's personalization engine forgot that i like them ,and stopped offering me content from them, so i'm back into drowning in shitty results. Why ? no idea why.

its