People still use Google for search?
Do people still use the most popular search engine for search? I get you’re trying to be factitious but it comes across as naff.
It might be the most popular but it is utter crap and has been for a while. It has reached peak enshittification. You used to be able to say you absolutely wanted a term in the search or you didn’t want other terms. It ignores all of that now. Google stopped being about able to search years ago and is more about showing you the most relevant ad. I’m either DuckDuckGo or I self-host my own searxng. I’ve also tried using a locally hosted perplexica (running on my own local LLM) which uses searxng underneath the hood I think.
Btw: I’m a yank so I had to look up naff so I learned some cool new slang! Now I’ll admit I was being slightly flippant but serious in the fact that Google really sucks as a search engine now.
I just tried to use google a few hours ago and it got me the same bad results as other search engines, only that it gave me a bunch of advertisements and AI slop first.
Right… But you’re not operating under the misapprehension that Google is somehow an uncommon choice for search. I agree it’s gotten crap in a lot of cases, but equally I also know just about everyone uses it for search.
DuckDuckGo is way better.
Nice try Mr convinso
I believe it, chiefly because I read the slop answer and then have to check 5 more pages to figure out if it’s spouting nonsense or not.
So he’s lying. Good to know.
Riiight… Next headline: “Pusher claims that his drugs not the cause sleepless nights and bugs under the skin”
Fox promises hens will be safe at his daycare.
I run sites for a major NGO for addiction recovery. We often ask people how they found us. More than half now say AI. We don’t have ads in our sites, but for people monetizing their sites this must be dramatic.
Also, Google must be bleeding ads revenue,
Company fails to realize people circumvent their shoehorned tool
Are we counting Gemini interactions as search?
Ding ding ding
If you make up a new metric then you can say there isn’t a problem.
That’s not what the data said back in March. I highly doubt it’s gotten better.
How does data show better experiences?
Amount of Google searches I’ve made since implementation of AI results: zero
As my country likes to put it “ownself check ownself”
Oh so Google is only killing people and not the Internet? What a relief. /s
What a bunch of BS.
Search clicks were dead already from 19 out of the top 20 results being AI generated SEO garbage pages and “articles” that contains information that is blatantly false and even contradictory. AI just gives you that same garbage right there without having to click anything. The real info is probably buried somewhere two search pages down.
Honestly, the guy is absolutely full of crap, but this is a solid point. The question os where the clicks AI summaries are absolutely killing are coming from.
I can’t imagine this will survive forever, considering that Google has already gone through the loop of getting nuked from orbit by the EU by summarizing news content once. Even if AI wasn’t involved in this at all, it’s of very dubious legality in… well, wherever Google News got swiftly shut down.
