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Search engines are pretty much redundant because they don’t return what we are looking for.
They cooked themselves.
But what if what your are looking for is AI generated articles that don't provide any trustworthy answers or top 10 lists of products that their manufacturers paid the site to figure on the list? Google is still the best for that.
Well when you put it that way…..
What if what I'm looking for is an article I can't read without subscribing, removing my adblock, and/or accepting a bunch of cookies? Or one that sends me away entirely because that's easier than being GDPR-compliant? Surely you'd click on those results.
Do we have to read the whole article? I just sort of want to peruse the AI generated headlines and come to my own conclusions.
If you have a technical problem and enter "reddit" in you search often you find help. But this is so stupid.
That is the only way I can find streaming links now, search engines quit providing them.
Yup,i use perplexity as my first port of call for most searches. Not because it’s good - it’s not, I’d estimate it’s wrong around 80%of the time - but because it’s still better than the alternatives
I'm guilty of using LLMs from time to time, and more guilty of finding it gradually replacing what I used to Google search.
If it's something that Wikipedia can help me with, that's still my first port of call, but gradually, for anything problem solving related, I just ask an LLM.
Even a year or two ago, I was googling things with reliable websites for advice at the end, like reddit, but clearly that has decayed as a reputable source for support.
Googling things that require more than just knowledge is difficult now, and asking the sometimes wrong machine is consistently more useful.
Seriously! The most I use one is for the spelling of words not already programmed into my swipe keyboard. And even then it still manages to fuck it up on occasion!
Funny how Google couldn't defeat seo spammers and yet claim they can keep AI safe. We are so fucked
You don’t want 8 pages of the same 4 media conglomerates telling you why you should totally buy the thing they reviewed and totally don’t have investments in/own everything they’re serving up, while they make a commission off their clickbait?
I'm guilty of using LLMs from time to time, and more guilty of finding it gradually replacing what I used to Google search.
If it's something that Wikipedia can help me with, that's still my first port of call, but gradually, for anything problem solving related, I just ask an LLM.
Even a year or two ago, I was googling things with reliable websites for advice at the end, like reddit, but clearly that has decayed as a reputable source for support.
Googling things that require more than just knowledge is difficult now, and asking the sometimes wrong machine is consistently more useful.
That depends on the search engine, of course.