It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us?
Do you remember when using Google to search for something online felt like magic?
I'm old enough to remember before Google, and it was really hard to find.
Anything on the Internet that is Ryan McDevitt.
He is an economist at Duke.
Google was a revelation because it made this information accessible and it was so useful.
The power of that revelation faded, as revelations do, and we all began to take Google for granted.
When you needed some information, you just typed a few words into the search box, and very quickly you got the answer you were looking for, usually from an authoritative source.
But today, to me at least, it doesn't feel the same.
My search results just don't seem as useful.
I feel like I'm seeing more ads, more links that might as well be ads, more links to spammy web pages.
Do you also feel like Google isn't what it used to be today on free comics radio, how did Google come to dominate web search in the first place?
People would be like, your search engine is so good and you're not making any money, and we just wanted to pay you.
What happened when Google essentially became a monopoly?
The problem with monopoly power is that you can degrade the experience because you've.
Locked in that user and we will hear Google's defense.
Or is it more of a threat?
If I took Google away, you would go nuts.
Is Google getting worse?
Or is it just that, as Milton Friedman might have said, there's no such thing as a free search?
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