Well, search is the one thing that AI is doing somewhat well at least.
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reddig33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think AI is the new search. I think people are just dumping Google because its search results are so poor these days.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It was never any good. That was the lie. So many people jumped on the band wagon but had no idea what they were doing. googol has always sucked.
drspod@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
It was better than AltaVista, Yahoo!, Lycos, Tripod, Ask Jeeves, MetaCrawler et al. at the time when it gained its popularity.
Its main advantage was that they focussed on speed. You didn’t have to load a “homepage” with news articles and link directories (as all the other search engines had become) before you could type your search query. It was just a logo and a text input box.
The search index even at the beginning was pretty comprehensive too.
Google jumped the shark a long time ago though, around when they started putting ads on equal footing with the search results, and boosting their Shopping links.
Auli@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Ehh it was better then everything else so I’d say it was good.
Hawke@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This. I know I did, although nothing else is quite as good as google used to be.