Who Broke the Internet?

<p>Today I'm listening to <em>Who Broke the Internet?</em>, a four-part series by <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic">@<bdi>pluralistic@mamot.fr</bdi></a> on CBC's <em>Understood</em> podcast.</p> <blockquote> <p>Google Search was the gold standard — a product born in a dorm room during the internet’s early, idealistic era. But when internal emails surfaced they revealed a deeper conflict inside the company: was Google making Search worse, on purpose, to boost ad revenue? Google says its changes are all about benefiting users. Critics say it’s all part of a bigger pattern — one that host Cory Doctorow calls enshittification: the slow, deliberate decay of platforms in the name of profit.</p> </blockquote> <p>Have you noticed internet search has become next to useless? It's like the arms-race between search and spam is ramping up, and not in a good way. Cory lays out the foundation that it isn't that simple, and that the degradation of search was brought on internally.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor/episode/16144078-dont-be-evil" rel="nofollow ugc">Check it out here</a> or wherever you get your podcasts!</p>