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• INeedANewUserName@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is it the conversational style? or that search engines have been designed to be actively worse to keep your eyeballs spending more time looking at advertisements now?

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I used to be good at googling information I needed. Then Google changed what googling does.

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    • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Try to find a big rig truck wash near your location on Google maps. I cannot. Only 57 million car washes and no way to filter them out.

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      • bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s because pickups and bigrigs are the same things now.

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        When I was in grade school we loaded up Logo and wrote scripts to make the turtle do abstract art.

        is old

        >_>

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t use Google. DDG works with keyword searches and you get exactly what you expect.

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I do use DDG as my default. I was using “googling” for the sake of making a witty remark. Even so, the results are usually comparable - the first couple dozen results are mostly AI/SEO slop.

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• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For horribly inaccurate results that sound like they were written by a $5 SEO article writer.

  Ill stick with key word search and skipping over all the SEO crap for.real results.

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  • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    With the amount of AI generated slop everywhere, I’m afraid that’s becoming less and less effective. For what it’s worth, LLMs work fairly well in filtering it out in a first pass. I don’t take what it spits out directly but uses the links it cites as sources and find my answers there.

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• addie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s times when I want to find “exact matches and nothing but” - searching for error messages, for instance - and that’s made much harder than it should be by AI bullshit search engines that don’t want you to switch off their “helpful” features. Considering moving to Kagi instead.

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  • illi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Definitely, there is using AI when you want and then there is having AI forced down your throat

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