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So the main claim of the article is people are searching less and they are asking questions of AI instead. Why? Because search has sucked extremely hard for la
by Roark66 1y ago
So the main claim of the article is people are searching less and they are asking questions of AI instead.
Why? Because search has sucked extremely hard for last dozen of years if not longer. I still remember the times when you could put something like "ham radio" +amplifier +diy +mosfet and you would get 20 pages of amazing results from Google you could get lost in for days. I remember in early 2000x when I'd put a substring of an error from some software, further refine the query with boolean logic and I'd find exactly what I wanted. A mobile phone with Google was my main tool in my job back then.
Then it all went to shit. Oh, are you perhaps searching for this? No, I'm searching for exactly what I typed!
Also, the fact Google is now limited to few pages of results on even most popular topics is insane. You'll never find a personal blog of some guy that has 30 views a month. That guy may have printed his writing and put it in his drawer as far as Google is concerned.
No AI is not killing the Web. Google has done long ago. Who is actually browsing the Web like we used to decades ago? Finding cool sites from search pages? No one. We just type the same set of addresses into our browsers.
AI is actually something that may revive the Web by cutting through all the shit and just giving us the right links.
- whywhywhywhy 1y agoIt's disgusting how Google has treated search the past few years, the fact you can type a term and it will straight up pretend it has 0 results for it or less than 10 results is baffling. What's worse is now the mantle is just there for the taking no one seems interested in picking it up anymore.
- pixl97 1y agoI'd think that mantle is going to be much harder to pick up than you expect. So much of the web is optimized around google behaviors breaking in is near impossible.