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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by tardigrada to c/technology

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For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

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[–] megopie 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I say supposed here in place of opposed as “ supposed” implies “a correct course of action”, rather than “an alternative but opposite course of action.”

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"as opposed to" is an idiom that just means "in contrast". You're creating a contrast between what they're actually doing as opposed to what they're supposed to be doing. "As supposed to" doesn't work as a preposition and doesn't actually create a contrast on its own.

[–] Gaywallet 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

As an FYI, opposed does not necessarily mean opposite, it can and often means in contrast to or in conflict with. Shades of gray, but either word works fine here.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

But the way it fits into the sentence doesn’t match that use case. It does perfectly match the use case for the phrase “as opposed to”.