Holdup, are people not skipping the AI summaries entirely because the info is fucking shit?
Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 8 hours agoNo, fewer people getting past the AI summary
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Is that what this is saying? I wasn’t sure. The article should state that explicitly, and not assume that the reader concludes that.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I think the issue there is the data doesn’t tell anyone “why”, it only tells “what”.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Hard to imagine usage of Google suddenly falling by 22%, much less 60%.
org@lemmy.org 8 hours ago
Which is probably enough to find the info 90% of the time
foodandart@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I have classic apple computers.
I also maintain a small list of sites I visit to get abandonware programs for them. Of the times I’ve used the AI results, I found what I was looking for fewer than 15%. At one point, I had the AI telling me there was no such thing as Winamp for Mac, while I was running it in MacOS 8.6 under the virtualization program, Sheepshaver.
Seriously?
AI’s got so little ability to sort through archived knowledge and pull up old links and sources, it’s as if anything before 2006 never existed.
Nuts to that.
I hit up ten blue links and have never looked back.
org@lemmy.org 8 hours ago
But did a regular search provide the correct info? I find niche searches aren’t always good using either method. Old software info can be hard to find.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Yes! I wasn’t looking for whether it existed, I knew it did, but it was in a .sit file with an abbreviated name. Also apparently was an aplha build, so maybe that’s why the AI insisted it did not exist. Was looking for the last version available for the classic OS as I had one of the earliest.
mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
This is actually a good thing. Google get paid for referrals and niw their “AI” shit turns against it.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Google get paid for referrals
What are you talking about?
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The only use I have found for the AI summary is quickly getting NAIC numbers for insurance companies at work. Otherwise I use an extension that removes the AI summary.
frongt@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Are those results correct, though?
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They actually are surprisingly.
Addv4@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Given the state of a lot of the summaries I’ve seen lately, that is scary.