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> In fact, this criticism extends to all search engines, including the one I use, DuckDuckGo. But since Google is still the dominant one, this article is focuse

> In fact, this criticism extends to all search engines, including the one I use, DuckDuckGo. But since Google is still the dominant one, this article is focused on them. Oh ok so clickbait title. The whole premise of the article is quite silly. No thanks, I don't want a human connection and asking someone for help when looking up information. There is plenty to be criticized about Google and modern web but this ain't it.

jaimex2 3y ago
Even that's not really a thing anymore thought right? You just ask ChatGPT because Google is just churn SEO results now that blabber on about anything but what you are after. Can't even get a cooking recipe without reading a poem about it.
- tourmalinetaco 3y ago
  I’d actually read the article if it was poems, especially funny ones. Instead it’s 10 paragraphs of SEO’d “history” of food, how much their dead great-grandma’s 2nd cousin loved this recipe, shameless self promotion, and some vague thing about how this’ll fix your marriage and keep the kids happy. All that for a 3-step recipe to make baked potatoes, and all you needed out of it was the time & temp because you already had it prepped beforehand.
- booleandilemma 3y ago
  I still trust google results over the lying robot.
  - jaimex2 3y ago
    Which is why we need an open source robot than can run locally and we know what it was trained on.
- jfengel 3y ago
  Are the SEO people not busily trying to game ChatGPT? It may be harder, and the cycle times longer, but I wouldn't expect LLMs to be any more immune than Google's algorithm. The algorithm, at least, has human intervention, while LLMs black boxes. It's great if ChatGPT is temporarily better, but I don't expect it to last. We still have an attention economy and a lot of people want a piece of it. They'll put a lot of money and effort to get it.
  - jaimex2 3y ago
    I would have thought they have different enough inputs. ChatGPT would get fed curated literature vs Google just crawling everything.
jehb 3y ago
> No thanks, I don't want a human connection and asking someone for help when looking up information. Ironically, at the rate the quality of Google results is current diminishing, you may need a human connection in order to have any sense that the information you are getting is accurate in the very near future. I think it won't be the worst thing if curation is seen as valuable again.

jaimex2 3y ago

Even that's not really a thing anymore thought right? You just ask ChatGPT because Google is just churn SEO results now that blabber on about anything but what you are after. Can't even get a cooking recipe without reading a poem about it.

tourmalinetaco 3y ago
I’d actually read the article if it was poems, especially funny ones. Instead it’s 10 paragraphs of SEO’d “history” of food, how much their dead great-grandma’s 2nd cousin loved this recipe, shameless self promotion, and some vague thing about how this’ll fix your marriage and keep the kids happy. All that for a 3-step recipe to make baked potatoes, and all you needed out of it was the time & temp because you already had it prepped beforehand.
booleandilemma 3y ago
I still trust google results over the lying robot.
- jaimex2 3y ago
  Which is why we need an open source robot than can run locally and we know what it was trained on.
jfengel 3y ago
Are the SEO people not busily trying to game ChatGPT? It may be harder, and the cycle times longer, but I wouldn't expect LLMs to be any more immune than Google's algorithm. The algorithm, at least, has human intervention, while LLMs black boxes. It's great if ChatGPT is temporarily better, but I don't expect it to last. We still have an attention economy and a lot of people want a piece of it. They'll put a lot of money and effort to get it.
- jaimex2 3y ago
  I would have thought they have different enough inputs. ChatGPT would get fed curated literature vs Google just crawling everything.

jehb 3y ago

> No thanks, I don't want a human connection and asking someone for help when looking up information. Ironically, at the rate the quality of Google results is current diminishing, you may need a human connection in order to have any sense that the information you are getting is accurate in the very near future. I think it won't be the worst thing if curation is seen as valuable again.