For some reason people lost the ability to look at search results and be able to read them. I don’t know how it happened, or why, but the simple basic function of scanning results has been bred out of humanity.
The whole original point of NoStupidQuestions was people could ask any question. And replies couldn’t be mean or a joke. it promotes discussion, the community was incredibly kind and helpful.
Not sure if that’s the direction the Lemmy version was heading towards
Let me put it this way. I’ve never in my entire life thought, “hey I wonder if you could permanently straighten your hair” but now that OP posted this I’m very curious, and now I have an answer. This place gives us answers to question that we didn’t even know we wanted.
it’s better to get a summary from a human instead of having to sort through a bunch of SEO-spam sites where you have to wonder if what you’re reading is secretely an ad or written by some guy pumping out 20 of these 500-word articles a day for $100 a day.
it’s one of the reasons I think both chatGPT & Kagi are better for “searching” stuff than Google. At least for certain things. I hate those SEO sites. I used to write for them when I was a teen in high school to make beer money. These days I’d imagine a lot of them are just gonna be written by AI going forward
I think it’s not as much an inability but an unwillingness. Although I concede some people are better at using search engines than others. Anybody who had to learn programming online for example is probably better than average.
My kids still ask me stuff that they should be capable of searching for themselves.
I mean, it’s nice to still be needed, but they’re mid-teens now and if search engines are too much effort then good luck surviving in the real world. 😂
(Kids, if you’re reading this many years in the future, I do love you, I promise. 😘😄)
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For some reason people lost the ability to look at search results and be able to read them. I don’t know how it happened, or why, but the simple basic function of scanning results has been bred out of humanity.
J12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The whole original point of NoStupidQuestions was people could ask any question. And replies couldn’t be mean or a joke. it promotes discussion, the community was incredibly kind and helpful.
Not sure if that’s the direction the Lemmy version was heading towards
Let me put it this way. I’ve never in my entire life thought, “hey I wonder if you could permanently straighten your hair” but now that OP posted this I’m very curious, and now I have an answer. This place gives us answers to question that we didn’t even know we wanted.
ZenGrammy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lemmy’s version of NSQ also prohibits replies that are mean or mocking the OP. We encourage asking any question that doesn’t break the rules.
J12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m glad that it’s similar to Reddit. I always enjoyed stopping by that sub. I learned so much.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
None of that changes my point. I was simply adding to the previous comment.
kava@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it’s better to get a summary from a human instead of having to sort through a bunch of SEO-spam sites where you have to wonder if what you’re reading is secretely an ad or written by some guy pumping out 20 of these 500-word articles a day for $100 a day.
it’s one of the reasons I think both chatGPT & Kagi are better for “searching” stuff than Google. At least for certain things. I hate those SEO sites. I used to write for them when I was a teen in high school to make beer money. These days I’d imagine a lot of them are just gonna be written by AI going forward
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
All of that comes down to exactly what I said. The inability to read search results.
I do agree that “ai” articles are horrible. And they’ll probably get better at what they do, unfortunately.
kava@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it’s not as much an inability but an unwillingness. Although I concede some people are better at using search engines than others. Anybody who had to learn programming online for example is probably better than average.
butterypowered@feddit.uk 1 year ago
My kids still ask me stuff that they should be capable of searching for themselves.
I mean, it’s nice to still be needed, but they’re mid-teens now and if search engines are too much effort then good luck surviving in the real world. 😂
(Kids, if you’re reading this many years in the future, I do love you, I promise. 😘😄)
ninjakitty7@kbin.social 1 year ago
To be fair, the search engines of today have lost the war against SEO garbage. 10 years ago google actually gave answers.