Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic

shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People on Twitter regularly go “@grok is this true” to everything and trust the AI to be correct.

  The same AI that said the fresh photo of National Guard members sleeping on the floor was from 2021…

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    people still on twitter are complete, brain washed idiots… so this behaviour tracks

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• Tillman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used Kagi for a few months when other engines failed. It did come through a few times. But paying $10 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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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good news for you, Kagi just made the first 50 searches free for anybody without creating an account.

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      • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah that’s what I used for the first 6 months to try it out.

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• BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Usually I would be digging through some old forums for examples from 10 years ago. Or searching stack exchange. Personally, my usage is scripting and programming sites has totally deminish.

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• shadowfax13@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  google search has been trash even before ai, 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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  • sprite0@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they purposefully fucked yup they 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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    • Pirate@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • sprite0@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        this isn’t a theory of mine, it came out in leaked testimony. totally intentional enshittification for profit

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know several people in my community who confidently trust it for search. they are not stupid people… but sometimes I question their choices

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• SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup, I’ve been seeing more and more people straight use AI results to support their arguments.

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• teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use extensions to block AI results… having to skip past them is annoying

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