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[–] 69 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.

In YouTube Music, when you're building a tuner to create a station, you can't search at all. Instead, you get an endless scroll off bands and have to find the one you want that way. The order is random.

Like .. Pandora let you do the same thing with search back in the 00's

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.

    It's not boggling; it's very simple: they discovered that having shitty search apparently makes them more money than having good search.

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

    I feel like maybe the term "search" when applied to digital services should be regulated. What Google et al do isn't search, it's recommendations. Recommendations can be useful, but they sure as hell don't replace search. Someone call the EU.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    if they won't regulate what 'news' or 'organic' or 'private' means then good luck with 'search'. waiting for the government to get wise and save us, still?

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