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I mostly agree with TFA, with one glaring exception: The quality of Google search results has regressed so badly in the past years (played by SEO experts), that
by m000 1y ago
I mostly agree with TFA, with one glaring exception: The quality of Google search results has regressed so badly in the past years (played by SEO experts), that AI was actually a welcome improvement.
- tossandthrow 1y agoI think it was just Google that got bad. I use Kagi who returns excellent results, also when I need non AI verbatim queries.
- otabdeveloper4 1y agoIt didn't get bad for no reason. It needs to be bad for ads to continue to be profitable. Displaying what you searched for immediately is cannibalizing that market. I'm guessing ads in AI results is the logical next step.
- sillyfluke 1y agoYes, that's the next logical step. The only silverlining is Google currently has less of a moat than last time in the technology in question, so some upstart could always be on their heels in a Kagi-esque way.
- beefnugs 1y agoIf ads is the next step then AI could never be used for coding. And if you mean in the browser or chat only... then people will just make a wrapper around the api.
- iLoveOncall 1y agoUser issue. Every single time this comes up. People don't know how to search, that's it. Even the HN population. Every time this gets posted, I ask for one example of thing you tried to find and what keywords you used. So I'm giving you the same offer, give me for one thing you couldn't find easily on Google and the keywords you used, and I'll show you Google search is just fine.
- mittensc 1y agoAllright, had this recently since i keep forgetting luks commands. How do you set up an encrypted file on linux that can be mounted and accessed same as a hard drive. (note: luks, a few commands) You will see a nonsensical ai summarization, lots of videos and junk websites being promoted then you'll likely find a few blogs with the actual commands needed. Nowhere is there a link to a manual for luks or similar. This in the past had the no-ad straightforward blogs as first links, then some man pages, then other unrelated things for the same searches that i do now and get garbage.
- hambes 1y agoIs "How do you set up an encrypted file on linux that can be mounted and accessed same as a hard drive." literally what you put into the search bar? if so, that's the problem. try "mount luks encrypted file" or "luks file mount". too many words and any grammar at all will degrade your results. it's all about keywords edit: after trying it myself i quickly realized the problem - luks related articles are usually about drives or partitions, not about files. this search got me what i wanted: "luks mount file -partition -filesystem" i found this article[1], which is in german (my native tongue), but contained the right information. 1: https://blog.netways.de/blog/2018/07/25/verschluesselten-file-container-mittels-cryptsetup-luks-erstellen/ https://blog.netways.de/blog/2018/07/25/verschluesselten-fil...
- Octoth0rpe 1y agoYour version assumes that the user knows that luks exists in the first place, OP's does not.
- hambes 1y agoOP specifically said they were looking for luks commands.
- IshKebab 1y agoGoogle hasn't really worked like you imagine for a decade.
- Nursie 1y agoLOL. I’ll take declining relevancy over (in order of badness) AI results that - Badly summarise articles. Outright invent local attractions that don’t exist. Gave subtly wrong, misleading advice about employment rights. All while coming across as confidently authoritative.