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A web search tip to avoid AI generated SEO junk (lemmy.world)
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[-] makyo@lemmy.world 236 points 6 months ago

I feel like Google’s crap results predate the AI tech by at least five years. It has been garbage SEO stuff for a while.

[-] BirdEnjoyer@kbin.social 212 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I feel so bad for the younger folks these days.

Way back when, if Google couldn't find it and we did some good Google Fu, it probably wasn't readily available online.

Now, you know it probably is there, just buried in nonsense generated purely by layer after layer of people's selfishness. And they never even knew it could be any other way.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 125 points 6 months ago

It's a sick joke that we've celebrated being in the "information age" for the last 20-25 years, and now that information is being obfuscated by various means again.

SEO, censorship, paywalls.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 67 points 6 months ago

it's not the information age, it's the data age.

Information implies usefulness. Data is just data. Could be right, could be wrong, who knows.

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

You could say the same thing about information, though. Information doesn't necessarily imply usefulness. There is an infinitude of information in the universe which is useless to us.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I guess I should have said "correctness" instead of usefulness

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 32 points 6 months ago

Now we have graduated to the disinformation age:-(

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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Maybe we should start calling disinformation "Lore"

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

lore-posting time

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Google has also disabled some of the search operators that made refining results more useful.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Like I don't think the minus operator to exclude a search term works anymore.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Which is the most important one for me. It's also really useful for filtering SEO crap that has 50,000 keywords attached to every page.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Is that a rollout thing? I was just using it last night

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It really breaks when you're using it multiple times in a string or combining it with other operators.

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