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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.

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J12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- 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.
  
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- WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  None of that changes my point. I was simply adding to the previous comment.
  
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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

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- 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.
  
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  - 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.
    
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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. 😘😄)

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- 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.
  
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