Why is google search just a malware injector

[Zee09]

Many of us remember rawdogging the internet on win98.

We've come a long ways.

You mean win 3.1.....

 

[dishdude]

You mean win 3.1.....

Most people were using Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy so you were inside their walled garden anyway.

 

[alarmguy]

Internet was never always "safe" or guarantee you "useful and new information" since inception.

Google is a search engine and whenever there's a ranking that leads to profit someone will try to game the system, regardless of what way you use to optimize it. In the future there will be jobs for people to optimize their website and information so they will "lobby" the AI to convince you it is the best, just like companies today hire sales and marketing people to do this to human.

Oh, we have freedom of speech. You would likely miss it when companies and governments start deciding what is good and not good for you, and credit card companies start telling game companies what games not to develop or they have to uglyfy the people inside for DEI or they will pull payment processing, or banning you from watching certain news stations because they are not patriotic enough, etc. You don't want that? You have to tolerate some junk info on the internet.

Well said, the thing is a lot of people can do simple things to mitigate security issues. Most don't want to bother or be inconvenienced.
Who deep downside doesn't know google is a wild kingdom? It can still be used responsibly or they can use even more well proven search engines like duckduckgo, Apples iOS safari and most important dont click on paid advertising links with all formats, look up those sites individually. There are plenty of ways to stay safe. But the VAST MAJORITY dont bother. Case in point, 80% of us dont even take the time and "bother" to lock our credit and that is a free service. So those who are concerned about security, in my mind ... well ... 80% of them dont have a leg to stand on.