Basically, in February 2019, there was a some corporate politicking going on within Google.
The search/tech experts (some who had been there from the start) wanted to improve search results.
The finance guys wanted to deliberately make search results worse so people would search more often and there would be more money from ads.
The finance guys won.
They replaced the head of the search team (who had been there from the very start) with the guy who had been in charge of the search engine at Yahoo at the time Yahoo stopped having its own search engine.
@Duenan Wifey had COVID a few weeks ago. She's just recovered her sense of smell and taste now. So my concern was (despite all our best efforts) I may have caught it.
Really hope that's not the case.
I just had a nice big bowl.of soup with lots of chilli.
@ppossej@SituationCake@Seagoon Assuming malicious intent is the worst part. They make you feel like a shoplifter every time you enter the store!
They're the ones who took over almost all the independent supermarkets and chains. (Remember Safeway? BiLo? Franklin's No Frills? Jewel? Tuckerbag? Festival? Rainbow? SSW?)
They're the ones who jacked up prices during a cost of living crisis and made billions.
They're the ones who ripped out humans at the checkout and replaced them with self-checkouts.
They're the ones that replaced most of the brand-name products with their home brands.
They're the ones that decided to clog up their aisles by doing night full during the day to save costs.
And then they assume we're the ones with a malicious intent!
I've been posting from Mastodon to Aussie Zone, rather than directly on the site, which is why the extra @ are there. (Hopefully it still all works without them!)
Last time I made them, I stopped by Kmart to get a couple of pizza trays.
The only issue I've had is I've gone for a store-bought base, and I haven't found a good one. Which is a challenge, because wifey is a bit of a fussy eater.
(Also, wifey puts too many toppings on hers and they end up going everywhere!)
But so much tastier and fresher than you get from a pizza shop.
@melbaboutown @dumblederp Yeah, it's not just you.
And it's deliberate.
This article by Ed Ziltron has a really good rundown of what happened inside Google: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Basically, in February 2019, there was a some corporate politicking going on within Google.
The search/tech experts (some who had been there from the start) wanted to improve search results.
The finance guys wanted to deliberately make search results worse so people would search more often and there would be more money from ads.
The finance guys won.
They replaced the head of the search team (who had been there from the very start) with the guy who had been in charge of the search engine at Yahoo at the time Yahoo stopped having its own search engine.