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A web search tip to avoid AI generated SEO junk (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I believe they're arguing that AI is particularly used in news, and when looking up news, you're typically seeking current events, in which case excluding post 2023 content doesn't work.

In my opinion, the place I encounter AI content the most is in list content, not just clickbait lists but also stuff where multiple products are compared. If I'm looking up what laptop to get, AI articles pop up comparing 10 products with inaccurate and messy details, but also I don't want to see old products.

Also IMO, in many cases Google search has been useless for 6+ years now. I think it was around 2018 where I started ending my search terms in 'reddit' because the first few articles were poorly advised clickbait, especially when looking for any advice (Reddit of course went to shit anyway). Google is only useful now for navigating to popular sites that will inevitably float to the top of any search query due to popularity. The only other common use for me is correcting typos when autocorrect is stumped.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna spend a whole lot time arguing intent; you can see what was posted already.

Per unexpectedhazard above;

This only makes sense for a very limited set of things tho.

I'm saying that news is a very limited set of things that you look up on google, and literally everything else will improve with this trick. Just because a single user only spends their google time looking up news articles does not mean that everybody does that. It might be of limited use for unexpectedhazard, but frankly, unexpectedhazard is an exception, not a representative example of most people.

We all know google search has been shit for longer than two years, it's just that before 2023 you could at least eventually find what you were looking for. These days, you can't even do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Oops I misread your message. I interpreted you as saying that they had it backwards, meaning they thought it excluded everything before 2023.