It’s trying to solve a problem created by SEO slop. “Find me the cheapest car rental”… That’s actually hard to do now bc SEO grift. Rather than building a more honest system, you get “agents” to do the searching for you
Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update
teft@piefed.social 2 days ago
Is one of those agents going to jerk off for you too? Who the fuck needs an agent to browse the web for them?
ssladam@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I see someone didn’t use Ask Jeeves back then /s
itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It didn’t make sense then, and it doesn’t make sense now. Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
Chozo@fedia.io 2 days ago
Isn't that only because of the limitations of the available technology only being able to handle simple strings, though? Conversational computing has been a pipe dream since early sci-fi, where characters would talk to their computers as if they were human; George Jetson never spoke to Rosie in keyword queries.
I feel like keyword search syntax being "king" is more of a symptom, than an intentional choice.