Comment by tredre3
1 day ago
> I can scan the first couple sentences of the AI response, and if that already has the answer then great.
But how do make the determination that the answer is good and you should stop reading the page? Vibes?
1 day ago
> I can scan the first couple sentences of the AI response, and if that already has the answer then great.
But how do make the determination that the answer is good and you should stop reading the page? Vibes?
I think it depends on what you are looking for.
Most of the time I'm looking for something very specific that there are plenty of articles about, but clicking on the articles results in popups, banners and an unhealthy amount of scrolling to get to the answer.
AI overview provides me the answer instantly.
Think about suff like "does china borders afghanistan". In those cases you can be confident that the AI overview is right, and saved you time.
If it is a complex or niche question I tend not to trust the overview and go straight for legitimate-looking results
Popups, banners? What are those?
Common sense.
The same way I make the determination as to whether a linked search result is good and I don't need to click on another search result.
It's not like non-AI webpages are inherently more trustworthy or anything. The internet is full of misinformation everywhere, you know?
How do you make it without AI ? Are you parsing through millions of pages yourself ?
The LLM results are presented confidently and succinctly in a way that is designed to tell you “yes” OR, it not applicable, it just mashes together statements (which often leads to a response that contradicts itself one sentence later). That’s not the same as your vetting search results.
Well before Google screwed it all up there used to be some correlation between top hits and what you were looking for. SEO has muddied the waters for many years now and it’s never been truly “merit based” or “objective” or whatever we want to call it, but generally speaking, the first results were the best by default.
That hasn't been my experience. It has been working really well for what I need.
SEO optimization totally ruined google search for me for the past few years
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No, you engage in what appears to be the lost art of media literacy and abrogate high quality sources.
Right, so I have to do manual work going over 10000000 of results ? Or trusting SEO / google algorthm instead ?
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Before AI people got the answer they needed from the snippets. That's the level most search queries are at.