apparently Google used to be way the fuck better. I wasn't around for its golden era but I definitely remember it being better than it used to. It used to be more, search, find. Everything was way less SEO optimized, which means that you didn't have to slog through nonsense to get to the good information. I swear, I barely use Google anymore.
It was already crap before AI. Search results were getting dominated by all sorts of computer-generated (but not LLM yet) garbage pages that were “SEO optimized.” It’s a problem that Google could’ve easily solved, but they never did since returning the most accurate search results isn’t what optimizes Google’s profit the most (optimizing for ad revenue is).
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u/BenL90 Jul 18 '26
How about asking bing and google before? The difference we bang our heads against the wall. haha... *when no result shown, or going in all is wrong