They did that to drive up short term ad revenue and it worked, and joy was in their greedy little hearts. They also did figure out that poisoning search results drives away users, and that search is kinda the fastest gateway drug to their entire ecosystem.
But they're stuck. Fixing search would lower their ad revenue, and stock holders would kill them for that.
"past performance is not indicative of future results¨
The supermarket bread that looks and feels like a squeaky toy. Best to avoid that one.
Many flashbacks to 80s movies and many speeches including "to protect our way of life".
In China his competitors are now too far ahead and in Europe they don't want no swasticar anymore. That leaves only the US market.
And sell tickets for the life boats to the highest bidder
As fertilizer, Trump is more useful.
I see. So that's how you run a country as a business.
Ah, no. The real tariffs come when the EU starts to charge them through the nose for using EU customer data. This is on the agenda for when some real retaliation is needed.
I guess it's not that different from permanently living in a fallout shelter.
Why connect to the Internet with it then
To check if your subscription to their models is still valid of course
Probably provoke every neighbor until it's a big active conflict in the entire region and then say they're the only one capable of "maintaining peace" aka kill everybody so better start sending weapons.