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Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.

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Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.

Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
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    That’s not a conspiracy. It’s been confirmed. The head of ads forced the search team to make search worse so people would search more and see more ads. There is no reason to use google search, they want it to suck.

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

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      Yes, but also: the web has become worse lately. All the search engines seem to be suffering.

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        Smugly smirks in Kagi

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        some site, or words i was searching just last week showed up many results, for some reason it stopped showing the samre results. its showing less now.

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        Hmmm I wonder what the alternative is I wonder hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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          Why not actually say the alternatives??

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            11 hours ago

            AI

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              so you mean the alternative to bad searchresults inevitably is AI for the vast majority of people. hence AI prevalence

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          i am not really sure what you mean with alternative?

          I mean the web has become worse because of AI

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