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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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As an ex 6-figure Google/Alphabet software engineer, the reason you may be dissatisfied with the search results lies herein to your account history, ergo, your account may not be tailored to the content you search per-se. Have you tried clearing the browser cache and history?
Source: Am a 6 figure Google/alphabet engineer, have worked on the code for google related services.
The search sucks because of the seo poisoning, regardless of personal entries, which, by the way, most of privacy aware users have already disabled.
privacy on google doesn't exist.