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So we're just making Google Assistant even more useless now? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Why even bother having it at all anymore. Can't use it through Bluetooth, it's slow, can't hardly handle any tasks...

Google has completely lost the plot with their services.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Those "ruined" products handily control huge chunks of the market. So from that perspective, they're not "ruined" at all. They're perfect.

Google search is awful now and there is a very real chance people will stop using it for the first time in like a decade.

Sure, but the one time someone brought actual empirical data into this discussion, it showed that while Google results did get worse, they got less worse than the ones of competing products like DDG (or Bing, which interestingly didn't share results with DDG, indicating that those must have expanded how much they use their own index).

Does that mean Google is better? No, they're still worse off. But if anything they made gains comparatively speaking, and what actually happened is that all search engines got worse because search-engine-spam-avoidance got defeated in huge parts.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Those “ruined” products handily control huge chunks of the market. So from that perspective, they’re not “ruined” at all. They’re perfect.

    They control the market because Google, like most too-big-too-fail massive corporations, buys out any serious competitors and uses its dominant size to destroy the threat of competition before it can actually challenge them to make better products. Yes Google isn’t a monopoly in any of its industries but it doesn’t need to be since most of the large competitors they face are thinking the same way they are, why fight when we can enjoy our cake and do nothing?

    Just because google products are widely used doesn’t mean they are good, it means people think they are the best option or can’t be bothered to switch which is a very very different thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    My point was more that the products aren't ruined from the perspective of their intended design. They're not meant as products to be of maximum usefulness to the customer, rather to capture and control the largest share of the market.

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