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minus-squaretheparadox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46arrow-down1·21 days agoThe number of people I know who now ask AI instead of web searching is… very upsetting.
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up38·21 days agoDoesn’t help that web search is shit nowadays
minus-squarearin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·21 days agoThat might be intentional and also coz of the shitty ai blog/info sites
minus-squareNate Cox@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·21 days agoIn the case of Google it is very much intentional, and documented. Good search means fewer search attempts and that means fewer displayed ads.
minus-squaregandalf_der_13te@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 days ago coz of the shitty ai blog/info sites SEO existed before chatgpt
minus-squareKirp123@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·21 days agoIf you search Google just serves you their AI shit. The other day their AI told me the word “rainy” has 4 letters.
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·21 days agoIt’s does have 4 letters. It has 5 letters too.
minus-squareStumblingWasabi@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up6·21 days agoIt does. It also has 5 letters but 4 is technically correct
minus-squareDrCake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·21 days agoGoogle search has got so bad in the last couple of years that I actually don’t blame people for using AI for this.
minus-squareBottleBoardBakon@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoTheres actually a secret third option
minus-squaregandalf_der_13te@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 days agogoing offline to live in a hut in the forest?
minus-squareSGforce@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·21 days agoYesterday I googled: Hardware store “City Name”. It only returned stores from a different city. So I googled: Hardware store “City Name City Name City Name” and it returned a single one for every result
minus-squareジン@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 days agothe number of people who are web searching are still majorly just consuming google’s AI and thats… more upsetting
The number of people I know who now ask AI instead of web searching is… very upsetting.
Doesn’t help that web search is shit nowadays
That might be intentional and also coz of the shitty ai blog/info sites
In the case of Google it is very much intentional, and documented. Good search means fewer search attempts and that means fewer displayed ads.
SEO existed before chatgpt
If you search Google just serves you their AI shit. The other day their AI told me the word “rainy” has 4 letters.
It’s does have 4 letters. It has 5 letters too.
It does. It also has 5 letters but 4 is technically correct
Google search has got so bad in the last couple of years that I actually don’t blame people for using AI for this.
Theres actually a secret third option
going offline to live in a hut in the forest?
Close, use not google
Yesterday I googled: Hardware store “City Name”. It only returned stores from a different city. So I googled: Hardware store “City Name City Name City Name” and it returned a single one for every result
the number of people who are web searching are still majorly just consuming google’s AI and thats… more upsetting