Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder

Post by mrkramer » Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:46 AM UTC

clnq wrote: post #148

V1ndaar wrote: post #142

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Honestly, the "golden days" of using reddit for that purpose are over, too. Both the fact that random other crap comes up due to how stuff is linked on reddit and generally most search engines being too lenient with your search terms and finally more and more conversation going to discord and other places that cannot be searched. It really is one of the most unfortunate things of the modern internet. :(

Reddit is very wrong about almost every discipline I have experience in and can speak on as an expert. I feel like I'd suffer from Gell-Mann amnesia if I paid it any mind. I think there's a good degree of pseudo-intellectualism on the site. Not necessarily in the conduct, but in claims of knowledge and the certainty they present it with. There was a period in my life I've been active on Reddit myself. Looking back on…

Post by Kye » Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:50 AM UTC

resolutebat wrote: post #165

dalbasal wrote: post #121

"Search results plagued with ‘clickbait’ would have been an understatement 20 years ago. The parts of the open web you access from Google/search (most of it) is almost entirely made-for-google' ranking algorithims. The situation is worse than it is on closed social media, including Google's YouTube. Professional YouTubers are also making content for rankings above all, but the fact that it's their own face/voice keep…

> I was recently looking for general travel advice on Google. I found it completely impossible. Try Wikivoyage, the Wikipedia Foundation's open travel guide. Listings are a mixed bag, but the general advice is often spot on.

Post by NL807 » Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:57 AM UTC

jabradoodle wrote: post #152

berkes wrote: post #139

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I probably wasn't clear. I truly meant "impossible to game". If I crawl your site today, encounter article A, and crawl it again in a year and again encounter article A, I am sure that article A is a year old (Well, techcnically, what I am certain of, is that I encountered the exact same article two times a year apart). You cannot game that. Now if another year later I encounter article A' where some content on the p…

> If I crawl your site today, encounter article A, and crawl it again in a year and again encounter article A, I am sure that article A is a year old (Well, techcnically, what I am certain of, is that I encountered the exact same article two times a year apart). You cannot game that. And what if I change a tiny amount of the article, or post it on a second domain I own? Do you think you can match up all the near dupl…

Post by p3rls » Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 12:00 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #204

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I dreamed of building a website like the type I grew up on in the late 90s and early 2000s. The gamefaqs, mrfixitonlines and casterrealms-type websites for me were at the forefront of making this internet medium to be better than books, voice or anything else for that matter for the transmission of information. Fast forward 20 years later. I think I've spent close to 300k on the website and team to help with it. I do…

I don't get it. kprofiles sounds like it provides a service. It might not be a great one or one I'm interested in, but collating all that information about K-Pop bands and publishing one or two articles a day is non-trivial.

Post by CM30 » Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 12:02 PM UTC

leobg wrote: post #31

Recipe blogs are the most horrible example. The amount of BS you have to scroll through to get to the actual recipe.