Ask HN: How would you feel if we nationalized Google?
A discussion on Hacker News explores the hypothetical scenario of the US government nationalizing Alphabet to restore Google Search to its 2010 efficacy. The prompt asks users if they would support removing LLM functions to improve search quality.
Why it matters
It reflects widespread user frustration with the current state of search engines and the impact of AI integration on information retrieval.
Not enough space in the title, the actual scenario is this: A hypothetical US gov't, benevolent and markedly less corrupt than the current one, passes a Constitutional amendment to nationalize Alphabet, with the express intent to return Google Search to 2010 levels of efficacy and to remove…
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