Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
www.theverge.com
Engineering and Assistant teams were impacted too
      • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
        61·
        1 year ago

        Everything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it

          • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
            33·
            1 year ago

            So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s

                • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  It’s also different as there only a few privileged channels get to keep their content forever. A lot of channels can only keep it for 2 weeks or 2 months based on their status, and a lot of creators upload their content to youtube to keep it for longer

            • bramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.net
              5·
              1 year ago

              The only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can’t call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.

                • BluesF@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Hopefully the alternatives catch on to that and improve outside of the English speaking world. Using Brave has been a dream for me, the results are almost always better than Google.

                  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    i personally refrain from brave, because A, those whole crypto shennenigans and what not and second, the browser is chromium based and i use firefox and i haven’t bothered to put brave search yet

    • narp@feddit.de
      21·
      1 year ago

      Copilot/Bing Search might put a big dent in that in the future. People will just ask an AI instead of “googling”.