Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.
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SEO is what ruined Google, then AI came along and was used to SEO the shit out of the shittiest websites
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You say that, but Google has explicitly been made worse in order to force people to look through more search results, so that Google can make more money on ads. Remember when you could use logical operators in search criteria to get better results?
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I’d much rather just take my searches elsewhere.
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Neither am I - but the results usually aren’t worse than Google’s, and with fewer ads.
I may need to give Kagi a try though.