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Google News searches ranked AI-generated ripoffs above real articles
- stapedium 3y agoIt’s still better than duckduckgo requiring a Microsoft account to see TFA!
- jacquesm 3y agoI fail to see the link between duckduckgo and Microsoft and TFA, what connects them? https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=google+news+ranks+ai+generated+article+about+the+real+one&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=google+news+ranks+ai+generate...
- dpkirchner 3y agoIf you tap the NY Post link below the "Recent News" title you'll be taken to a Microsoft powered news page that only lets you read a few paragraphs before demanding you install some malware or app or whatever.
- jacquesm 3y agoInteresting, for me that just takes me to the page + content. I do run a bunch of ad blocking stuff so maybe that's the difference?
- 15457345234 3y agoYour machine is compromised
- lupire 3y agoDid you see the plain "Expand Article" button under the blue "Download App" button?
- dpkirchner 3y agoNo, just "continue reading in the app". Edit: I do see the button on other articles that are served "on MSN.com". I dunno.
- nkingsy 3y agoReading this article from the exclusive ny post triggered an 8-deep navigation tree into some virus scan scam, without clicking on anything. Maybe that’s why they are outranked in search…
- batch12 3y agoDid you happen to grab a screenshot? I am curious how it lines up with some malware I saw impacting news sites a few years back.
- 15457345234 3y agoYour machine is compromised
- bragr 3y agoWhile this is a real problem, I appreciate the unintentional self-own to complain that AI trash is being ranked above the usual NY Post trash ;)
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoPost-exclusive? right. Fellow outrage media enthusiasts a few days ago: Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042260
- aiauthority 3y agoI would love to see a more "private" version of internet where I can simply get results and such from a specific set of whitelisted providers. I have a feeling the news industry might actually be doing better now than in past.
- cvburgess 3y agoIsn't this essentially what Kagi and other search engines that let you create "lenses" and block/allow sites are? I think this version of the internet exists today, it just isn't built in to Google anymore.
- Jordan-117 3y agoGoogle used to have a feature where you could filter out whole domains for any reason. I wonder why they don't bring that back and then use that as a (non-determinative) signal for deciding which domains to ban themselves. They index a lot of sites obvs but you'd think a user-curated list of the top 100 or 1000 spammy domains would be useful info to have.
- malfist 3y agoGoogle has never had that feature. There have been browser extensions that could do it though
- asah 3y agoLOL it was probably an n% experiment that OP got into!
- travem 3y agoThere is the Programmable Search Engine feature that you could set up to do this kind of filtering. Here's a quick example that excludes *.gov domains - https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=55d5f36c6916f4526 https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=55d5f36c6916f4526 The visual style of the results is much more reminiscent of an older style search engine results page which I kind of like
- dpkirchner 3y agoWhile it's true that google.com didn't have the feature, Google used to offer an official extension that implemented this feature.
- Jordan-117 3y agoYes, it was the official Personal Blocklist extension: https://searchengineland.com/googles-personal-blocklist-delete-google-search-results-on-chrome-64757 https://searchengineland.com/googles-personal-blocklist-dele...
- darig 3y ago
- j45 3y agoI wonder if the ripoffs were ranked higher because they appeared newer?
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- KTibow 3y agoI might be missing something but this article seems deceiving. When you're "sorting the results by most recent date of publication", of course more recent articles will rank higher regardless of where they're from.