You’re not imagining it. Ed Zitron writes how everything Big Tech makes is getting worse, tying a tighter tech market to chasing trends and, as a result, deleterious effects on user experience across the internet.
In recent years, Google users have developed one very specific complaint about the ubiquitous search engine: They can't find any answers. A simple search for "best pc for gaming" leads to a page dominated by sponsored links rather than helpful advice on which computer to buy.
And Google isn't the only tech giant with a slowly deteriorating core product. Facebook, a website ostensibly for finding and connecting with your friends, constantly floods users' feeds with sponsored (or "recommended") content, and seems to bury the things people want to see under what Facebook decides is relevant. And as journalist John Herrman wrote earlier this year, the "junkification of Amazon" has made it nearly impossible for users to find a high-quality product they want
In some of the most extreme cases, tech titans have decided to completely abandon the ideas that made them famous in the first place in a desperate bid for renewed relevance. The best example of this disastrous search for a second act is Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook… CEO Mark Zuckerberg's intent is clearly to own a kind of "second internet," the next place where users socialize — except the virtual-worlds concept is bordering on dead on arrival, with a tiny number of people signing on, because, frankly, it sucks.
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