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3dedb728-3f77today at 8:15 PM5 repliesview on HN

imo, Google is just slowing dying.

Each tools they made slowly lost trust until there is no way to believe it again.

Idk if it is just the current propaganda, but they just told us we can't even trust google sat images. So now we can't even trust google maps to drive.


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input_shtoday at 8:54 PM

"Slowly dying" implies it's some sort of a natural process they have no control over, that's not what's happening. It's committing suicide, on purpose.

It's a modern-day burning of the Library of Alexandria in favour of a shitty replacement. It's what we get for offloading such a basic web function in the hands of a private company that's just no longer interested in serving that basic function.

palatatoday at 9:05 PM

> imo, Google is just slowing dying.

Too big to die, IMO. They can just buy everything they want and abuse everybody.

rexreedtoday at 8:41 PM

If Google is slowly dying, then Meta is quickly dying. I still never understood the hard reframe of their company to the Metaverse. Why was it so important that they had to pivot the whole brand? And now AI is here and they're 20 steps behind. But then again, everyone says the best way to test your brand on the market is to buy Meta ads so what do I know. I guess they're just the Yahoo of the 2020s.

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stock_toastertoday at 8:37 PM

I think trust in general has eroded.

Rampant _overt_ corruption at the highest levels of western governments, wars, enshittification[0], decay[1], crumbling infrastructure, constant political gridlock.. It seems like it is everywhere, and people are exhausted.

[0]: https://www.worseonpurpose.com

[1]: https://decayindex.com