"in a world where every important event you can't find in Google for all practical matters never happened"
Except Google isn't in China, and least I heard important events still happen there...the world isn't as FANG centric as western media would want us to believe.
Three companies I don't use, and one that has lost nearly all of my search traffic due to terrible results for really simple queries. It will be interesting to see in what form they persist over the next few decades!
I haven't been using Google much as of late, basic queries come back with crap results. Its as though they've screwed up their indexing so bad that large chunks of forums and (fairly static) support docs just aren't showing up or are ranked multiple pages back.
Perhaps some of the sites I visit are hosted on Google, but since I stopped visiting reddit (the awful redesign was the last straw), I see very little traffic hitting AWS or GCP IP ranges. Part of that is probably uBlock Origin doing its thing though!
Except Google isn't in China, and least I heard important events still happen there...the world isn't as FANG centric as western media would want us to believe.