By timesofisrael
Publication Date: 2026-06-03 12:00:00
I’ll keep this brief because I’ve written about it before, and I imagine everybody still retaining their sanity is encountering it. Please, though, do read all the way to the end. It’s mind-boggling.
Google, the world’s near-monopolistic tool for navigating the internet and accessing online knowledge, isn’t very good at doing that anymore. Whatever it has done to itself, there is now “a broad consensus among users, researchers, and tech analysts that Google Search has gotten noticeably worse… Academic studies, user satisfaction surveys, and recent search behavior reports confirm that the platform feels more cluttered, less accurate, and more frustrating to use than it did years ago.”
I know this, as you do, not only through personal experience, but also because Google’s own Gemini — its self-proclaimed “flagship ecosystem of generative artificial intelligence technologies” — just told me so.
And while Google’s strategists…
