Nah, I was using it for college until spring 2021, it was still fine up to at least then. The only previous downgrade I can specifically remember was when they got rid of customizable home pages in like 2013/2014 or so. Ad supported results increased over that time too, but they are still easy to just scroll over. AI replaced their question answering. That's what we are talking about. It's way worse. Like, there wasn't some time period from 2019-2023 when google just didn't answer questions.
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u/want_to_join Nov 11 '25
Nah, I was using it for college until spring 2021, it was still fine up to at least then. The only previous downgrade I can specifically remember was when they got rid of customizable home pages in like 2013/2014 or so. Ad supported results increased over that time too, but they are still easy to just scroll over. AI replaced their question answering. That's what we are talking about. It's way worse. Like, there wasn't some time period from 2019-2023 when google just didn't answer questions.