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Product Recommendations Broke Google And ate the internet in the process (nymag.com)
10 points by tmoertel on April 20, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Yeah it's bad now. I don't know when I first started noticing that searches with Google didn't return relevant information, they returned products. It was like Google had just become a fancy Yellow Pages (remember those?), where it treated every search as coming from a desire to buy something, not learn anything.

Here's an amusing one: search for NZT-48.




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