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Elon posted "Grok it" — instead of "Google it". I paid attention to what the users shared under his X post and I wrote this short article showing how disappoin

Elon posted "Grok it" — instead of "Google it". I paid attention to what the users shared under his X post and I wrote this short article showing how disappointed users are with Google Search. As usual, I have no problem with people who strongly disagree. Your comments are all appreciated! :)

feraloink 2y ago
Hi, Elie! I read the article, then read your case study, then visited you on LinkedIn. I was amused by your custom LinkedIn URL! A few hours ago, I was replying to a post about "Gradual Disempowerment" from generative AI. My theory (just a guess, not researched like your case study!) is that Google and Apple (and maybe Microsoft and Amazon) are diverting CAPEX away from their core businesses to chase after AI chimeras. And as a result, the quality of their services (e.g. Google Search) is static or degrading. So, in order to improve Gemini, is Alphabet diverting resources from Google Search? Over at Tyler Cowen's blog, this guy said Gemini got irritated when he cursed at it. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/gradual-empowerment.html?commentID=160869791 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/gr... My comment is right after his (as Ellie Kesselman). Maybe you'll lol about Siri.
- semking 2y ago
  Hey, thank you so much for this comment that I'm only discovering now! First, I'm glad you were amused by my Linkedin trolling! :D Next, I think we all wish the quality of Google Search were "static" but it is degrading instead. What you mentioned is probably the reason and this is a quick observation I made at the beginning of this hiking video yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zEadYJYIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zEadYJYIU
nexoft 2y ago
SEO Strategist sounds like "Prompt Engineer" i.e not involved in the foundational creation of the tools and their back-end, understanding their internal mechanics, what is really to create a "Search" engine and how it works but you're rather reverse engineering and heuristically guessing how they work on surface. In essence you're optimizing keywords to improve a resource reach for a search engine, until the said search engine changes its ranking algorithm. Because of this I cant really give credit to what you are stating. Plus this really felt like hyping Grok out of nowhere with those cringe screenshots of tweets as if they were made up, until you hype something else weeks later and post about how Perplexity AI will kill OpenAI (They won't, they are a ChatGPT wrapper). Google is presumed dead multiple times per month. Read their financial statement, Search is literally their Life insurance, don't you think they have their best guys on it?
- semking 2y ago
  Why do you think SEO Strategist sounds like "Prompt Engineer"? Why do you feel I'm hyping Grok and predict "...until you hype something else weeks later"? I just wrote a draft concluding that Grok might be an idiot after all after a stupid answer. I don't know how well you understand crawling, rendering, indexing and ranking in organic search but I'm not sure you know what I do on a daily basis. I'd love to be involved in the creation of tools, and I would love to try to understand their back-end. I'm the opposite of hype. If you want to roast me, here's a video that should give you some inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zEadYJYIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zEadYJYIU

feraloink 2y ago

Hi, Elie! I read the article, then read your case study, then visited you on LinkedIn. I was amused by your custom LinkedIn URL! A few hours ago, I was replying to a post about "Gradual Disempowerment" from generative AI. My theory (just a guess, not researched like your case study!) is that Google and Apple (and maybe Microsoft and Amazon) are diverting CAPEX away from their core businesses to chase after AI chimeras. And as a result, the quality of their services (e.g. Google Search) is static or degrading. So, in order to improve Gemini, is Alphabet diverting resources from Google Search? Over at Tyler Cowen's blog, this guy said Gemini got irritated when he cursed at it. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/gradual-empowerment.html?commentID=160869791 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/gr... My comment is right after his (as Ellie Kesselman). Maybe you'll lol about Siri.

semking 2y ago
Hey, thank you so much for this comment that I'm only discovering now! First, I'm glad you were amused by my Linkedin trolling! :D Next, I think we all wish the quality of Google Search were "static" but it is degrading instead. What you mentioned is probably the reason and this is a quick observation I made at the beginning of this hiking video yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zEadYJYIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zEadYJYIU

nexoft 2y ago

SEO Strategist sounds like "Prompt Engineer" i.e not involved in the foundational creation of the tools and their back-end, understanding their internal mechanics, what is really to create a "Search" engine and how it works but you're rather reverse engineering and heuristically guessing how they work on surface. In essence you're optimizing keywords to improve a resource reach for a search engine, until the said search engine changes its ranking algorithm. Because of this I cant really give credit to what you are stating. Plus this really felt like hyping Grok out of nowhere with those cringe screenshots of tweets as if they were made up, until you hype something else weeks later and post about how Perplexity AI will kill OpenAI (They won't, they are a ChatGPT wrapper). Google is presumed dead multiple times per month. Read their financial statement, Search is literally their Life insurance, don't you think they have their best guys on it?

semking 2y ago
Why do you think SEO Strategist sounds like "Prompt Engineer"? Why do you feel I'm hyping Grok and predict "...until you hype something else weeks later"? I just wrote a draft concluding that Grok might be an idiot after all after a stupid answer. I don't know how well you understand crawling, rendering, indexing and ranking in organic search but I'm not sure you know what I do on a daily basis. I'd love to be involved in the creation of tools, and I would love to try to understand their back-end. I'm the opposite of hype. If you want to roast me, here's a video that should give you some inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zEadYJYIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zEadYJYIU