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News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic (nypost.com)
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[–] 112 points 1 year ago (16 children)

People really trust it? Like it’s been so wrong on things for me, I automatically skip to search results past it. Why bother anymore

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    google search has been trash even before llms, i believe its one of the reasons chatgpt got so much traction. first 2 pages are just generic slop with paywalled or ad-infested content.

    i switched to kagi 2 years ago and its has relevant results on page 1 that i won’t get in google even after 10s of pages. plus i don’t bombed with ads for that term for weeks.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    they purposefully fucked up the search so people would have to click more pages to find their answer, giving google a chance to display more ads.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have a different theory. Google started scrapping Reddit since its gone public, so I think this is a strategy to get people to use [search query] + reddit in order to find answers, so that Google can scrape that data to train their AI

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I still find it weird that people don’t use Kagi for search. At least start page or ddg. Google hasn’t been useful for five ish years and admitted in court that they damaged results to prop up ads.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I used Kagi for a few months when other engines failed. It did come through a few times. But paying $5 a month to get one extra good search result per month was a hard sell for me. If they offered a much much smaller package of lime 20-50 searches per month or just pay as you go, I'd definitely be in.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Depends on what it is. As a reference lookup for a simple programming function and with an example, it's been a game changer.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, asking an LLM simple stuff that Google used to just give you at the top of the search before the AI Overview was a thing, like how old is X celebrity or for a high level example of code, or as a stupidly complex spell checker it is pretty good.

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