Google did this to themselves, they’re prioritizing quick profits over everything else. Including your search, it sometimes doesn’t even search for what you typed but instead for a similar prompt that contains more ads.

I’ve been on yahoo for about a year now. It takes a bit to get used to he slightly different search prompts, but it works a lot better.

Google used to to try to “get you off of google ASAP”, to wherever you wanted to go. Yahoo still does this, it has the same backend that feeds the bing AI, but you can disable the ad ridden homepage.

I mean duh? Search engines used to be an incredibly powerful tool, now they link nothing but “top ten x to buy in 2024” lists that are filled with ads and likely get a portion of sales through links.

Source: I used a search engine today