Google search became useless after a few decades because monetary incentives took over the purpose of serving users what they were looking for.

You only have one customer: the one that pays your bills. The end user is not your customer if they are not aligned with your revenue model.

Here’s an example (note that for reasons unknown Wired took down the article later):
http://archive.today/3a0wY
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