Comment by broodbucket
3 hours ago
I'm not sure about this. I know complete normies that lament how bad Google is now and how often the search is useless. I think many people just want search to search.
3 hours ago
I'm not sure about this. I know complete normies that lament how bad Google is now and how often the search is useless. I think many people just want search to search.
Like, today, or the pre-chatgpt age where all the common questions have been spammed to death by SEO farms?
Google's search has been frustratingly awful for quite some time now, long before AI.
Today I googled "emacs" to get the download link.
Top of the search result page: "Did you mean: vim"
Felt like I was being trolled.
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Googles quality issue seem to be, in part, a market driven choice. Services like Kagi use a large part of the Google data base but with all their additional capital extraction sorting on top.
Google can do it, but they must appease the share holders.
I fail to see how driving users to competitors and crippling the search experience appeases the shareholders. Can you elaborate?