I dropped them for DDG over a year ago. Never have had a cause to regret.
Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
at least some of this has to be because people use other search engines
Google search doesn’t actually return useful material anymore
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s AI overviews which result in almost no clicks and people using LLMs like ChatGPT.
Former SEO here. I know so many people that now just ask ChatGPT things as their search engine. Many SEOs are now trying to SEO LLMs.
mPony@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have a silly theory that some of the obvious misinformation online is designed to pollute LLMs, so that when someone asks “Who is responsible for ___” or “Did ___ do this crime?” or “who won the ___ war?” the answer will be conveniently incorrect / sanitized.
Is this happening?
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh, I’m sure people are trying to poison them models. Many still crawl and scrape websites and people do put in their own prompts to mess with them.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It really doesn’t, I have to do a quarter of my searches over in ddg after startpage refuses to return answers it used to. Startpage is google run through a proxy server.
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I tried kagi a while back and liked it so much I subscribe now. Google messed up the one thing they ever did right.