content: Yep, Google and other search engines are far worse now than they were even 10 years ago. More than that, we also have less prospects for social media and fie sharing than we had back then. The freedom of the Internet is shrinking, not expanding. A lot of it has to do with the abysmal economics of ad-based funding. Ads used to be worth a lot and now they're worth next to nothing. Ironically though, hosting in terms of actual cost is cheaper than ever, but the billing of customers has not dropped enough relative to the drops in actual costs. Long story short: Greed is effectively killing the Internet