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There's going to be a short and tight window for the non-dominant search engine companies out there to seize this opportunity and make their search results base
by numbers 2y ago
There's going to be a short and tight window for the non-dominant search engine companies out there to seize this opportunity and make their search results based on real things. AI search results have already shown to be hallucinating on basic queries.
When I look up something as basic as time zones in two different regions, I don't want AI to imagine something, I just want the results from the thousands of sites available out there to just be presented to me.
- romeros 2y agoNot really. AI overview is a natural progression. It is pretty accurate. The hallucinations have decreased significantly over the past year. Most people won't mind this.
- pphysch 2y ago> search results based on real things. The Internet in 2024 is full of not-real things and the effects of financialization. This is the underlying problem, not that Google Search is inept.
- Arnt 2y agoThis! Google is the messenger, and blaming the messenger is fine if you want to blame someone but poor if you want a solution.
- downWidOutaFite 2y agoBut Google has shaped the internet to be the way it is. At some point over the last 10 years they gave up on fighting inorganic seo spam sites and decided to join in and profit off of it.
- mococa 2y agoA messenger who sells your data.
- Arnt 2y agoOften asserted by people who sound very confident. I have a Gmail account that I use only for purchases. A majority of the mail there is about me spending money. A highly valuable consumer, you'd think? A far as I can tell, nothing about that account has been passed to any third party, for money or for free.
- hehdhdjehehegwv 2y agoRTFM. https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6379332?hl=en https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6379332?hl=en
- Shish2k 2y agoI’ve read that page, and I see the part where a third-party will upload their own data to google so that google can target ads more precisely; but I missed the part where a third-party gets access to a user’s data
- rchaud 2y ago> A far as I can tell The operative words.
- Arnt 2y agoWell.. it's possible that someone paid good money to learn about that account and then did not try to sell me anything. Do you think that's likely?
- rchaud 2y agoIt's not 2004, Google has more ways beyond just Gmail to hoover up behavioral data to feed its ad platform. There's Android OS, Chrome, Maps, Youtube and Google Analytics. You live in a panopticon, you just don't know it.
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- dingaling 2y agoThen AI should be directed towards sifting real from unreal.
- Ferret7446 2y agoThat... is exactly what Google is doing with AI. Or trying to do anyway.
- donmcronald 2y agoIt's like talking to a drunk person that thinks they know everything.
- hu3 2y agoI have been using Google AI search results more and more. I'm worried for HowTo websites because they will probably lose a ton of traffic.
- liveoneggs 2y agogoogle ate those years ago with snippets and other theft