BlueSky Post.
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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
But that's still not what they said in their original comment. They were directly linking Google's search becoming worse to Google's monopoly, while the same is happening to all other providers as well, no matter how niche they are.
Sure we can tranform this into some handwavy "capitalism bad" statement (and I agree), but that's not what they said and has basically no substance.