What Cory Doctorow thinks about Google

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of the daily link blog Pluralistic. He coined the word "enshittification" in 2022 to name the way platforms decay, and it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2023.

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2 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Cory Doctorow has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 28 Jul 2023

   Our readingRanking first in a search has become near enough to being true, which is why search and spam are permanently at war.

   Their wordsGoogle’s the first — and often the last — place we go to for answers, so snagging top billing in a Google search results page is, approximately speaking, equivalent to being “true.”

   ↗Microincentives and Enshittificationpluralistic.net 1st of 2 in this piece

3. 28 Jul 2023

   Our readingA monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has.

   Their wordsThe only way for Google Search to grow is to make itself worse.

   ↗Microincentives and Enshittificationpluralistic.net 2nd of 2 in this piece