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Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.

Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”

He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.

Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.

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[–] ScaNtuRd@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Google is terrible. It is beyond me that the majority of the population is dumb/uneducated enough to use it.

[–] d33pblu3g3n3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DDG to the rescue! It's astounding how in this day and age, duckduckgo gives much more meaningful results than google. Exception made for local businesses, but for technical info and issues, DDG is way better.

[–] fiddlestix@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obligatory mention of Kagi (which is actually brilliant).

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Mmm, but what's their plan to resist enshittification? After all, Google started out as "fundamentally different, user-centric." What will Kagi do when their market penetration peaks and the business managers demand more growth?