I'm not sure about this. I know complete normies that lament how bad Google is now and how often the search is useless. I think many people just want search to search.
I'm not sure about this. I know complete normies that lament how bad Google is now and how often the search is useless. I think many people just want search to search.
Like, today, or the pre-chatgpt age where all the common questions have been spammed to death by SEO farms?
Google's search has been frustratingly awful for quite some time now, long before AI.
Today I googled "emacs" to get the download link.
Top of the search result page: "Did you mean: vim"
Felt like I was being trolled.
That's an Easter egg. It goes the other way too (vim -> did you mean emacs).
Back in the day, more people might have seen something like that as a clever easter egg.
These days, we default to
"Day 3,449: google's still broken. what was i thinking?"
It's an Easter egg. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25371017
Googles quality issue seem to be, in part, a market driven choice. Services like Kagi use a large part of the Google data base but with all their additional capital extraction sorting on top.
Google can do it, but they must appease the share holders.
I fail to see how driving users to competitors and crippling the search experience appeases the shareholders. Can you elaborate?
Every complaint about Google is evidence of someone who still uses Google.