Is that what this is saying? I wasn’t sure. The article should state that explicitly, and not assume that the reader concludes that.
Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoNo, fewer people getting past the AI summary
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I think the issue there is the data doesn’t tell anyone “why”, it only tells “what”.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hard to imagine usage of Google suddenly falling by 22%, much less 60%.
org@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
Which is probably enough to find the info 90% of the time
foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Holdup, are people not skipping the AI summaries entirely because the info is fucking shit?
mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
This is actually a good thing. Google get paid for referrals and niw their “AI” shit turns against it.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Google get paid for referrals
What are you talking about?
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Companies pay Google to be at the top of the list and get clicks
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Could you please point me as to where I pay Google for my site to be higher in the search results? Unless, of course, you mean the ads.
mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Companies pay for google to show up high in search results. Some of them pay from clicks.
Now people stop at the slop which is the first thing thry see in the results.
This makes traffic to company sites go down which also affects google revenue.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Companies pay for google to show up high in search results.
Do you mean the ads? Or, if you mean the search results themselves, where do I pay Google to get my site higher in the results?
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This just forces people to turn to Google Ads. They will actually make more money from people because it kills off little businesses that can’t pay and jacks up competition/pricing for ad bids.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Are those results correct, though?
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They actually are surprisingly.
Addv4@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Given the state of a lot of the summaries I’ve seen lately, that is scary.