2025 is the year where I finally have to ask myself: "What is Google actually doing for me?" and the answer is "Nothing". I am no longer able to search with Lynx. I had to move to startpage.com for that. I never used, and never will, gmail or any other of their oservices, except for YouTube (which they bought). YouTube search is finally totally unusable, pushing short form content onto me which I really really don't care about. I have to click the "Show me less shorts" button on my iPhone every few weeks, because the stuff keeps coming back. I don't care about their AI summaries, I was always happy (when I was still able to use Google in my daily workflow) with the excerpt they were giving me since what, 2002? I don't have an Android phone, because their Accessibility was lacking behind for almost two decades. They dropped the "Don't be evil" motto. ... Where do I even stop? Google used to be great. Now, all they do for me is to maintain storage for my TV-replacement, YouTube. I say maintain storage, because that is all they do. I can't even meaningfully search that content. I have given up on them. It is over.