> I don’t use Google search [...]

I know. But you're posting confidently (along with a ton of other people) in a subthread about Google search anyway, making statements about its behavior which you straight up admit to be unqualified to make. And I'm calling out the disconnect, because someone has to.

No one in an echo chamber thinks they're in an echo chamber. This is 100% an echo chamber.

I gave up contributing to these threads years ago. On the edutainment scale HN threads on search have long tipped over to the "entertainment" side. Most of these threads are for people to performatively sneer at ads, javascript, the web, normies etc. HN just can't have conversation about search in a realistic way anymore.

The absurdity of this argument speaks for itself. "You're unqualified to judge it because it's so bad you can't tolerate using it."

I suffered through Google search's decline for the last 15 years along with everyone else. I land on it often enough still to see that the trend is not changing.