Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoGoogle search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square47linkfedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down18
arrow-up1184arrow-down1external-linkGoogle search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicksarstechnica.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square47linkfedilink
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·2 days agoSearch engines are so significantly worse than they were a decade ago. The golden age of accurate searches is over, now it’s all SEO piss and AI slop.
minus-squareDave@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoTo give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago. Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms. It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoSEO garbage has been around for much more than a decade. In fact, before Google got really good at search ranking, sites easily gamed the search engines.
Search engines are so significantly worse than they were a decade ago. The golden age of accurate searches is over, now it’s all SEO piss and AI slop.
To give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago.
Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms.
It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.
SEO garbage has been around for much more than a decade. In fact, before Google got really good at search ranking, sites easily gamed the search engines.