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I really wish someone would come along and kick googles ass on search, it's embarrassingly bad. It's wild how I used to look up to the FAANG folks, but it has b
by polytely 5y ago
I really wish someone would come along and kick googles ass on search, it's embarrassingly bad. It's wild how I used to look up to the FAANG folks, but it has become a real emperor has no clothes situation.
- autokad 5y agothis one is a bit problematic, because people assume those 0 click search results are True / gold standard. like when I do 37 c to f and I see it display the results, I never double check them, I just assume they are right.
- polytely 5y agoYeah the fact that *this* is what the mighty Google just let loose upon the world shows that they don't really care any more about their users, their products and their supposed mission of organizing the worlds' information. The fix is quite easy too, just have an AI driven system with human supervision, I think at this point it is well known that a human + AI will basically always trump an AI and it's not like google doesn't have the resources to pull this off. You could build a database of verified facts that are often googled, have the AI gather data, have humans do a sanity check. It's probably just some scheme to get someone promoted inside Google, the infobox is a side-effect of someone's career plan, it doesn't really matter if it actually works as long as it hits some key metric that gets used in an evaluation somewhere, who cares about propagating misinformation and falsehoods google is still making money. It makes me depressed.