Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
org@lemmy.org 2 weeks agoWhich is probably enough to find the info 90% of the time
Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
org@lemmy.org 2 weeks agoWhich 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.