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They could simply restore the search quality they had in 2010. No one wants these "AI" summaries except for people looking to get promoted for "having an impact

They could simply restore the search quality they had in 2010. No one wants these "AI" summaries except for people looking to get promoted for "having an impact" inside Google. What Google is doing right now is sabotage the search moat they do have. They are throwing it all away because of some "AI" rainmakers inside the company.

ketzo 1y ago
Then what explains people doing millions of web searches on perplexity/chatgpt/claude?
kccqzy 1y ago
That's impossible unless the web reverted back to 2010, when walled gardens weren't prevalent, making your own blog was common, doable and often done by those without programming experience, forums were alive and well, and people wanted to share things on the web rather than group chats.
- voxl 1y ago
  There are plenty of blogs, plenty of obvious low quality spam to block, plenty of features to enable allowlist and blocklists. To think for a second that the Google search experience couldn't be made significantly better at the snap of a finger by Google is to live in a fantasy world.
  - ljlolel 1y ago
    All that means less revenue, that’s a fantasy
    - voxl 1y ago
      Sure, sure, except for this minor issue that the argument I was responding to didn't mention revenue, they talked about the state of the internet. So why again are you responding to my counter with a straw man?
- o11c 1y ago
  It's perfectly possible if they start downranking sites full of ads. But an ad company will never do that.
bdangubic 1y ago
they are losing more and more search to “AI.” my 12-year old never uses Google and couple of times I asked her to “Google it” she literally rolled on the floor laughing and called me a “boomer” :)
- triceratops 1y ago
  I wonder if "boomer" is going to become a generic term for "my parents' generation".
  - bdangubic 1y ago
    100%
  - einsteinx2 1y ago
    Already has been for a while now. Also just anyone that isn’t hip to the latest trend of the day.
- deleted 1y ago
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irjustin 1y ago
Simply untrue. I don't want it back. I use ChatGPT's voice transcribing to do 99% of my searches today. Google does need to adapt or die
massysett 1y ago
> No one wants these "AI" summaries Not true, I use them all the time. They have links available for when I want further information, which is not very often.
- userbinator 1y ago
  I never use them. Especially when they can be completely wrong (and the problem is how will you know that it's wrong?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142113
  - bdangubic 1y ago
    you are linking to “AI responses can make a mistake” post???! Google’s top 86 search results are ads :)

ketzo 1y ago

Then what explains people doing millions of web searches on perplexity/chatgpt/claude?

kccqzy 1y ago

That's impossible unless the web reverted back to 2010, when walled gardens weren't prevalent, making your own blog was common, doable and often done by those without programming experience, forums were alive and well, and people wanted to share things on the web rather than group chats.

voxl 1y ago
There are plenty of blogs, plenty of obvious low quality spam to block, plenty of features to enable allowlist and blocklists. To think for a second that the Google search experience couldn't be made significantly better at the snap of a finger by Google is to live in a fantasy world.
- ljlolel 1y ago
  All that means less revenue, that’s a fantasy
  - voxl 1y ago
    Sure, sure, except for this minor issue that the argument I was responding to didn't mention revenue, they talked about the state of the internet. So why again are you responding to my counter with a straw man?
o11c 1y ago
It's perfectly possible if they start downranking sites full of ads. But an ad company will never do that.

bdangubic 1y ago

they are losing more and more search to “AI.” my 12-year old never uses Google and couple of times I asked her to “Google it” she literally rolled on the floor laughing and called me a “boomer” :)

triceratops 1y ago
I wonder if "boomer" is going to become a generic term for "my parents' generation".
- bdangubic 1y ago
  100%
- einsteinx2 1y ago
  Already has been for a while now. Also just anyone that isn’t hip to the latest trend of the day.
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irjustin 1y ago

Simply untrue. I don't want it back. I use ChatGPT's voice transcribing to do 99% of my searches today. Google does need to adapt or die

massysett 1y ago

> No one wants these "AI" summaries Not true, I use them all the time. They have links available for when I want further information, which is not very often.

userbinator 1y ago
I never use them. Especially when they can be completely wrong (and the problem is how will you know that it's wrong?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142113
- bdangubic 1y ago
  you are linking to “AI responses can make a mistake” post???! Google’s top 86 search results are ads :)