Google was already going downhill but when they fired Matt Cutts and replaced him with an advertising person was the point where it was obvious they weren’t interested in search anymore.
Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Google destroys their own search engine by encouraging terrible SEO nonsense and then offers the solution in the form of these AI overviews, cutting results out of the picture entirely.
anachronist@midwest.social 4 months ago
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 4 months ago
You will never be able to consistently find the truth when AI optimizes for overfitting to get any result as long as something is show with ads next to it.
AI has no way of understanding truth. It’s autocomplete trained on just anything it can find truth or not.
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
AI can also understand extra weights for hand picked sources of truth. Whether you then agree with the choices of whoever is doing the hand picking, is a separate matter.
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Would be a shame if different “truths” made more or less money and someone optimized for one of those.
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Yeah, they call it A-Z testing, because A/B wasn’t enough, and AIs can fill A to Z cases with ease.