Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
pyramid20@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I thought this was wild, that no way it could have dropped THAT much: hell, I still search for things and didn’t rely on LLMs.
Then I remembered I switched my default engines to Duck Duck Go, and Startpage,
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A LOT of people out there just read whatever tho google AI tells them on their search. They’ve been trained that the answer is always the 1st non-ad link on Google. And now the thing at the top of a Google search is their LLM answer.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 days ago
That’s horrifying. That thing is wrong waaaaaaasy to often to trust it. Like, easily more than half the time and that’s me googling shit I’m not even that knowledgeable about.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Searched for ‘is Death Stranding 2 on Geforce Now’ (streaming games service).
Answer it gave ie ‘yes, absolutely’. With a link.
The link? An Nvidia post about GPU drivers that had been updated to work with the game since it just launched on PC. Basically, because there was SOME mention of the game on the Nvidia site, it just went ‘yep’ without actually understanding the question.
Basically, if I’d bought the game based on that answer, I wouldn’t be able to play it…