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> put the effort into keeping Search profitable The company would have ended up like Stack Overflow? I don't think there was an option for them.
by yodsanklai 2mo ago
> put the effort into keeping Search profitable
The company would have ended up like Stack Overflow? I don't think there was an option for them.
- mattstir 2mo agoIf they focused on keeping search results genuinely high-quality, I think the outcome could have been very different. Basically everyone I know slowly began shifting their questions to something like ChatGPT because Google search results were only presenting irrelevant SEO'd garbage with 12 ads shoved into every page. Slapping the lowest quality model at the top as an "AI Overview" and removing the one genuinely useful part of search at that point (widgets like the dictionary) was the final nail in the coffin for me at least.
- zbentley 2mo agoNo, even if Google search of old still existed, LLM Q&A would still be trouncing it. This is because people don’t like to click/follow links, they don’t like to read, and they don’t like to have to comparatively evaluate multiple pieces of information.