Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
www.theverge.com
Engineering and Assistant teams were impacted too
          • @Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
            3•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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
      3•2 years ago

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