Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic
shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 1 week agogoogle 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.
sprite0@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.
Pirate@feddit.org 5 days 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
sprite0@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
this isn’t a theory of mine, it came out in leaked testimony. totally intentional enshittification for profit