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The end of the Googleverse (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I avoid Google products as much as possible these days, especially anything launched within the last 2-3 years, because it will soon be abandoned and unsupported. Their search results are worse than they have ever been. The only Google app I actually like is Google Maps.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Maps is also seriously going down the gutter.

There are ads in maps now.
It works OK if you know a name, but not the location, but not the other way around. If there's any concentration of businesses, you can zoom in all you want but it will only show 1 in 2 places.
Many search terms now result in residential places near the top results. I suppose these are mostly small webshops run out of homes for the same terms, but that isn't usually what one is looking for when using maps.

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