Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.

Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”

He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.

Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.

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    1 year ago

    wait until you are stuck with AltaVista

    I got good query skills

    a 5MB email inbox

    So the emails don’t have tracking and images embedded in them? And I can just delete things after I’m done reading them? Sounds great.

    video sharing without Youtube

    I can count the number times I’ve wanted to share videos with the public on zero hands.

    services like AOL or MSN that try to outright replace the Web.

    So like how Facebook is for boomers now? And what Google is trying to do with their verified website bullshit?

    It really wasn’t that much worse, unless you’re obsessed with over-sharing your life to strangers on social media.