Back in 1999, Google was relatively new and not well known. It was the clean, blank search screen and highly relevant results that got me, whereas Yahoo, AOL, et al were messy.

Google was the OG tech version of giving people a high quality product to put all the competition out of business, then slowly start squeezing as much money from them as possible with complete disregard for product quality or user experience

HughJanus@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

We must sacrifice the Internet to The Almighty SEO.

mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y

The origin of enshittification

TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 2y

a lot can change in 20 years

Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

In internet times this is prehistoric though

pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Maybe it's because I'm using ublock but don't they still hold true to a lot of that?

elauso@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

That's pretty much the point of ublock: Remove shit from pages so they have "no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter"