Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoYup I ran into this last we’re looking for a wiring diagram of a relatively obscure part.
1st page of results on DDG and Google were both AI ‘blog’ style results of random diagrams unrelated to the part. All the same “loading…” text and I’m pretty sure all generated on the fly as I loaded them.
It didn’t even give me the manufacturers site in the first 2 pages, and because I got upset and clicked through every result to vent to a co-worker, it decided to give me MORE slop results. I watched the useful info vanish from the results on reloads of the same search term.
Dave@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
Holy crap, I hadn’t considered that we have the technology to create articles on the fly based on search terms.
That could be a serious weapon of war - you get your site to the top through SEO, then show each user personalised propoganda. You show googlebot the genuine page but adjust the page based on what you know about the user.