Google hits back after Apple exec says AI is hurting search

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• PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google search was good 20 years ago. It sucks now.

  They over capitalized it.

  Plus they’re evil af

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  • verstra@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sus of them to drop the slogan “don’t be evil”

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  • AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t disagree with your conclusion, but I think part of why it sucks now is all the Search Engine Optimization, of people trying to game Google into showing you their website, and only necessarily the one most pertinent to your search

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    • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s part of it. The other part is that Google, and other search engines, assume you’re clueless and try to “fix” your query for you, and you can’t stop it because they’ve been removing support for searching exact words or using boolean expressions or excluding words.

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    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There have been former Google employees saying they had solutions to deal with SEO, but they were vetoed by the ads side of business, since better results reduce “engagement”.

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The thing is though, despite Google not being my primary search, shout-out SearXNG, it doesn’t suck now for me.

    If I’m looking for information, Google is great and the AI summaries provide everything I want.

    If I’m looking for a song or artist discography, Google again is great.

    It’s only when I’m looking for sites that I tend to not even bother with Google.

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    • Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve been running my own searxng instance for a while now. It is very good 99% of the time. Miles better than the garbage that google generally returns.

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• Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Switched to ecosia for private use and qwant for professional use. Much better than google and they’re creating their own search index now

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  • kionite231@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sadly qwant isn’t available in my country :(

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    • Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Too bad, I’d suggest Ecosia next or if that is not an option something like startpage

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  • the16bitgamer@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a few thing ecosia still gets wrong or offers the wrong answer. But 80% of the time it is correct.

    Using it on all my devices.

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    • Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I personally don’t really have any issues with that anymore. Used to be like that years ago but has improved massively. Mainly their image search thats a bit meh

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well AI is, but it is Google and it’s monopoly that is destroying search.

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• shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The man who killed Google search is required reading at this point.

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