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minus-squareRooster326@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·8 hours agoIt would be a “good skill to have” if they haven’t actively been making search engines worse, so they can make AI look better. How the fuck could AskJeeves from 20 years ago work better than search engines of today?
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·8 hours agoIt’s not just them, it’s the SEO spam gaming the system. AskJeeves would be utterly horrendous today because the web of its time is no longer feasible. And who is the center cog of this ad-driven SEO apocalypse? Who runs basically all web advertising? Well… Google, of course.
minus-squaremaria [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 hours agoi believe search engines have been degrading prior to the LMs but might be misremembering…
minus-squareantonim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 hours agoNo, I agree. One indicative moment was when Google stopped showing the “X million results found” and the results ended after 10-15 pages even when the keywords should have millions of results. This was noticed back in 2021.
minus-squareRooster326@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoI tried looking up the decline but…
It would be a “good skill to have” if they haven’t actively been making search engines worse, so they can make AI look better.
How the fuck could AskJeeves from 20 years ago work better than search engines of today?
It’s not just them, it’s the SEO spam gaming the system.
AskJeeves would be utterly horrendous today because the web of its time is no longer feasible.
And who is the center cog of this ad-driven SEO apocalypse? Who runs basically all web advertising?
Well… Google, of course.
i believe search engines have been degrading prior to the LMs but might be misremembering…
No, I agree. One indicative moment was when Google stopped showing the “X million results found” and the results ended after 10-15 pages even when the keywords should have millions of results. This was noticed back in 2021.
I tried looking up the decline but…