• eclectic_electron
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    11 months ago

    People aren’t comparing it to alternatives, they’re comparing it to Google 5-10 years ago.

    Google used to be astoundingly good at figuring out what it was you wanted, and finding out for you. Now there’s a lot more SEO garbage and meaningless fluff clogging every results page, and if your search could even remotely be related to buying something, it’s only products and ads.

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      11 months ago

      I would agree it’s a little worse than it used to be, but the post implies it’s useless which is just false

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        11 months ago

        Dude, I switched from Google for the first time in my life a couple months ago because I couldn’t take it anymore.

        Ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads
        Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles

        The fact that google has a built-in graphing calculator just isn’t worth it.

        I won’t forget this, actually: I was looking up what to do next in a game I was playing—very deliberately, I care a lot about spoilers—and the “people also ask” section implied, for no reason, this had nothing to do with what I wanted to know, that a character who died really early on apparently has things to say in chapter 9.

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          11 months ago

          Ok. You can’t really avoid spoilers on the Internet though. That’s kind of common knowledge

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            11 months ago

            I do. I’m a professional.

            That stupid answers thing only got me once, maybe twice, because I don’t let it anymore.

            This kind of thing is a lot easier to control, though, when your results are what you wanted and not what you didn’t.