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> "Search can no longer pretend to be a neutral gateway to a stable body of knowledge." Search hasn't been neutral or stable in a very long time, although I ag
by nyanmatt 2mo ago
> "Search can no longer pretend to be a neutral gateway to a stable body of knowledge."
Search hasn't been neutral or stable in a very long time, although I agree it has been pretending to be those things.
- joe_the_user 2mo agoJust making search the gateway diminished aspects of the Internet and collective memory - Google actually work to blunt this effect initially by following the structure of DMOZ portal, a human-curated tree of authoritative websites. It's ancient history by now but it's worth noting things have decay for as long as they have been being built. Oppositely, ChatGPT is a pretty "better google".