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.
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 2 years 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 2 years ago
ZenGrammy@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 years ago
None of that changes my point. I was simply adding to the previous comment.
kava@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
To be fair, the search engines of today have lost the war against SEO garbage. 10 years ago google actually gave answers.