by now, saying “i did a search” and actually having done a search and found stuff AND shared the link feels like a “good skill to have” again.
my brother (14 y/ooooo sooooooo skibidi) uses mister gpt for all web searching which sucks big time. whenever he does use a real life search engine, hes surprised by the amount of stuff he finds by now.
No, I agree. One indicative moment was when Google stopped showing the “X million results found” and the results ended after 10-15 pages even when the keywords should have millions of results. This was noticed back in 2021.
by now, saying “i did a search” and actually having done a search and found stuff AND shared the link feels like a “good skill to have” again.
my brother (14 y/ooooo sooooooo skibidi) uses mister gpt for all web searching which sucks big time. whenever he does use a real life search engine, hes surprised by the amount of stuff he finds by now.
EDIT: fixed some typos…
It would be a “good skill to have” if they haven’t actively been making search engines worse, so they can make AI look better.
How the fuck could AskJeeves from 20 years ago work better than search engines of today?
It’s not just them, it’s the SEO spam gaming the system.
AskJeeves would be utterly horrendous today because the web of its time is no longer feasible.
And who is the center cog of this ad-driven SEO apocalypse? Who runs basically all web advertising?
Well… Google, of course.
i believe search engines have been degrading prior to the LMs but might be misremembering…
No, I agree. One indicative moment was when Google stopped showing the “X million results found” and the results ended after 10-15 pages even when the keywords should have millions of results. This was noticed back in 2021.
I kinda miss the relief of finding what you were actually looking for 10+ pages in
Now Google is so good you never have to look that far anyway :^)
I tried looking up the decline but…