Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results

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• ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah Alphabet is uh really really really stupid for losing their user loyalty when competitors in the search field like Kagi exist.

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  • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s truly shocking how a tiny company of a few people can outperform one of the largest companies in the world with search. Google is full of ads though, so it’s more profitable for them if you have to spend more time on their page to see more ads.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s exactly why Google Search has gone so far downhill that it’s pushing people elsewhere. Searches are supposed to be fast at giving you the answer you’re looking for. But that is antithetical to advertising. It’s why Google has been scraping data for years to build their own internal responses to easy queries like simple calculations, definitions, basic wiki results, etc. since you never even need to leave their site. Can’t get faster than that, until those results can no longer be trusted.

      Now those quick results can’t be trusted, thanks largely to their blind AI fixation. That trust can never be earned back, it is lost permanently. Many users will instead start looking for alternatives that don’t feed them bullshit responses and instead just give them the links to good info, like Google used to.

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know, it kind of makes sense, since Kagi can tailor itself to a specific audience, whereas something big like Google will just make a generalised slop that is able to be used by anyone, but isn’t to anyone’s particular tastes.

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  • w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kagi isn’t a competitor to Google because search engine isn’t Google’s product.

    Collecting user data and monetizing it is Google’s business product, and they are far and away ahead of any other “competition”.

    They don’t even need the search engine anymore to collect user data. They have millions of people using Chrome, watching YouTube, using Gmail, using an Android phone…etc

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• elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google is devolving into pre-Bing Yahoo

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• freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Been using searx a bit recently and it often is the 1 thing I’m looking for as the top result.

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• NaoPb@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve seen people commenting on other articles about how Google Search sucks now. I finally get what you mean. I want you to know I feel your pain.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank goodness we have Lemmy tbh

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ???

    This is search. Lemmy isn’t search.

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I more meant the AI takeover of the internet in general. This is a of the few online spaces where you can still find real news and interact with real people.

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I type my search into the post and then usually some kind person finds me a link and calls me a asshole

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