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Nostalgia Overload: Today’s Throwback Google Doodle Shows A Guy In 2013 Getting Usable Results From His Google Search (clickhole.com)

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[-] li10@feddit.uk 69 points 11 months ago

I still don’t think it’s talked about enough how useless Google search is becoming. It genuinely infuriates me on a daily basis.

That’s what I see AI actually replacing, along with those shit websites that write 1000 words for instructions that could be summarised in 4 bullet points.

I don’t know if Google would fully adopt AI into their search though, as they have such a strong incentive to keep things how they are.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

Google has different goals than a search user.

A search user’s goal is to find something related to what they typed.
Google’s goal is to make money based on what was typed.

Whether google uses AI or not, their goal will be at odds with the user’s and the results will only be useful enough that most people won’t completely stop using search.

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