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The reason Google is uniquely bad at this is because Google poisoned its own well years and years ago. Google is SEO and SEO is Google. The whole company is ine
by bgun 2y ago
The reason Google is uniquely bad at this is because Google poisoned its own well years and years ago. Google is SEO and SEO is Google. The whole company is inextricable from the concept of ranking based on "what generates the most advertising value and eyeballs", and not "what is actually verifiable, reasonable, evidence-based, or legitimate".
Google banked on those two things being similar enough in the early days of the internet to generate billions of dollars, but strayed so far from "don't be evil" that they no longer see that they were instrumental in pushing the two apart.
- wouldbecouldbe 2y agoGoogle is actually better at being accurate then gpt. It's just they are starting over with the LLm's it seems and trying to play catch up by completely bypassing it's search logic.
- benterix 2y ago> Google is actually better at being accurate then gpt. Do you mean their snippets before the LLM era? They were shortcut crap, too. I remember when searching for the Dalai Lama, it showed: "Nationality: Chinese". But of course the current version is even worse.
- Iulioh 2y agoToday "When does the metro close?" Ask a colleague Another one, with a laptop open "I can Google it" He googles it, reads the preview and i immediately think "...i think that's wrong" and it was, in fact, wrong. I mean, that's so simple and specific but it still got it wrong.