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Google Search as you know it is over
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this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Yep. Starting in 2019 the Ads department internally defeated the Search department and successfully degraded the quality of the algorithm in order to keep people searching.
I just posted about this above before I read your comment. Here is the article that describes what happened:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/