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David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months ago

Google is replacing search results with only the AI

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Google is replacing search results with only the AI

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David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months ago
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You might remember a company called Google. In 1998, they came up with an amazing product — a web search that didn’t suck! And it could find things! With the state of search in 1998, this was incre…

replace the Web with slop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji8lhaV3XM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260520-google-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai - podcast

time: 9 min 04 sec

  • HM King Charles III DG FD ( Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) 
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    5 months ago

    Guess I’ll just have to use ddgo, then ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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      5 months ago

      Unfortunately DuckDuckGo sucks ass at search, even compared to how much the Google search results have degraded over time. I use the no-AI version as my primary search engine, but I have to resort to using Google to find the thing I’m looking for about 1 in 5 times.

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        DDG has been my main search engine for over a decade but it has degraded as it became basically a reseller of Bing results after Russia started the current phase of the Ukraine war and they stopped partnering with Yandex.

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        Probably 2 in 5 ddg searches are worthless for me, but trying again on Google rarely if ever helps. Usually, both are returning SEO slop or Product™️ rather than the thing I was looking for.

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