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It wasn't AI that made google search bad. It was SEO and google's acceptance paywalled sites like linkedin showing google one document and visitors another docu
by postalrat 3y ago
It wasn't AI that made google search bad. It was SEO and google's acceptance paywalled sites like linkedin showing google one document and visitors another document.
- neonarray 3y agoSEO was/is a good thing because it made search a lot better for many years. The real problem are the individuals gaming/abusing the hell out of the system. Add AI content to the mix and I do fear it's a problem that can't be sorted out by Google Search, at least as how we know it now. It still has its uses and I personally still turn to it (well DuckDuckGo usually) to find specific things. But like all things, it's one tool that serves a certain purpose.
- postalrat 3y agoI don't remember SEO ever making search better.
- IshKebab 3y agoExactly. There's been a lot of easy to identify trash on Google for a very long time that they haven't bothered to deal with. I bet it's partly because they rely too much on metrics. "Oooo lots of people clicked on the clickbait! They must want more!"
- Terr_ 3y agoThat was definitely a major factor in making things suck, but I don't think it (nor LLMs) were required for the rise of annoying content-farm sites.