Obviously google was basically already unusable over the past five years but this is... this is something else. Any subject you want to look up will have the first three pages entirely comprised of procedurally generated fake blogs and websites. And there's nothing there. Just scraped text from articles mashed together with varying amounts of hallucinations on top. Not even selling a product, just to harvest ad revenue.
What's maybe even worse is the steady degradation of image searches too. Joe Everyman generates some slop, the image's metadata tags include a historical artist's name. Some one on pinterest pins it while trawling the web. Now there are fifty gooey generated sludge images when you look up the historical painter.
And its not just artists. Historical figures, animals too. Look up 'baby peacock' if you want a clear example of it.
It's a pretty funny bit google, I hope it keeps going.
Pinterest has ruined google image search. Now everything is pins that are blurry compressed images. I have to use yandex's reverse image search to find the source. Thank you Russia.
Yandex's reverse image search is so much better than anything else it's actually surprising to see a technology that is that much far ahead of others.
It's slowly going to shit too, just slower.
Russia is such a primitive and backwards place. They are decades behind the west in developing advanced enshittification technology.