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

      The few times I wasn’t sure I did the same search in google and got similar results so I’m 100% happy.

      They even have some nice features like location aware searching, instant answer results (eg a box to convert currency), etc.

      Additionally you can weight or even blacklist domains so you can completely remove results from Instagram.