Oddbean new post about login | logout At some point, the search results in the Apple App Store stopped correlating with the search terms for certain apps. I believe that’s what @b92dcc07 means by “enshittification.” It blows me away that I can type in a search term, and the App Store recognizes it, and even auto-completes it for me, but then shows me dozens or hundreds of apps that don’t match my term. 🤔
@b8bd0c8f @b92dcc07 This happens with Amazon as well (though not to such an extreme). I've got a book titled Big Shoes To Fill," a string of words I can guarantee matches that item exactly (and that I suspect matches others too). But searching that doesn't give me Big Shoes To Fill. It gives me shoes.
@b8bd0c8f @b92dcc07 Technically, this is not ‘enshittification’. It is Enshittification as a Service (EaaS), because Apple (and Amazon, who do it too) are offering your degraded search experience as a service to their paying customers (*) (*) Yes, you’re a paying customer too, but you can’t pay to have your experience not degraded. Yet.
@b8bd0c8f @b92dcc07 tried to find a part for my laptop yesterday. Search results were full of sponsored results for laptop parts, none of which were even close to the very specific part number I had as my search criteria. The non-sponsored results before that were worse. Eventually have up and found the part myself on new egg.