Google (and friends) killed off the internet’s potential in search of money
Stuff | 10.12.2025 14:45
It took a while for us to get here. Once upon a time, Google was the very best internet search engine on the planet. That wasn’t hard to do in the 1990s, but it managed to retain its position right up until it placed current Chief Technologist Prabhakar Raghavan in charge of ads and commerce at the company in 2018. It wasn’t all Raghavan’s fault. The company had been in a downward slide for some time before that, but that point marks the moment when Google explicitly cared more about money than about making a decent product.
