• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    A former high-up at Google has stated that they intentionally made the search engine worse a few years ago so that people would see more ads and click on more sponsored links. Now, the best result is #15 in the list, on average.

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      I don’t remember his name, but he got moved to the education department.

      Someone else had the link.