I for one love the “wall of ai” this author decries. It is super helpful for most of the questions I ask. I don’t know why he doesn’t like it.
Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
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#12> Enter 2024 with AI. The top 20% of search results are a wall of text from AI... I'll be the contrarian here and say I actually like Google's AI Overview? For the first time in a long time, I can search for an answer to a question and, instead of getting annoying ads and SEO-optimized uselessness, I actually get an answer. Google is finally useful again. That said, once Google screws with this and starts making sear…
It would be great if it wasn't completely wrong 50% of the time.
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#13Definitely agree, but I'm surprised Perplexity wasn't mentioned in this post. It's currently Perplexity Vs. Google
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#15> Enter 2024 with AI. The top 20% of search results are a wall of text from AI... I'll be the contrarian here and say I actually like Google's AI Overview? For the first time in a long time, I can search for an answer to a question and, instead of getting annoying ads and SEO-optimized uselessness, I actually get an answer. Google is finally useful again. That said, once Google screws with this and starts making sear…
It would be great if it wasn't completely wrong 50% of the time.
I find it mostly right 70% of the time.
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#16Still using Google I see? How primitive..
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#17I remember when the more tech savvy folks were migrating from Altavista and Yahoo to Google because they understood it is better sooner than others. The same thing is happening. I consider myself tech savvy (still!) and I have to admit that I rarely use Google for all sort of information.
As a side note: I am using Safari and I noticed that Apple's search is also replacing my Google searches. In the past if I knew name of a company or organization but not their website I'd Google it. Now I put it in the address bar and Safari very often finds the website for me.
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#18SEO ruined the web, guided by Google's ranking algorithm. Things will get even worse as scammy companies start flooding the web with LLM generated content pushing their products to bias LLMs to increase the probability of outputing their name for keywords related to their business.
Libraries and librarians are starting to seem very relevant again. As are journalistic institutions.
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#19> Enter 2024 with AI. The top 20% of search results are a wall of text from AI... I'll be the contrarian here and say I actually like Google's AI Overview? For the first time in a long time, I can search for an answer to a question and, instead of getting annoying ads and SEO-optimized uselessness, I actually get an answer. Google is finally useful again. That said, once Google screws with this and starts making sear…
It would be great if it wasn't completely wrong 50% of the time.
Describes my general experience with AI across the board. Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. It’s like I’m talking to a genius toddler. With ChatGPT losing 5 billion dollars on 3.7B in revenue this is unsustainable. It feels like the dotcom bubble all over again.
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#20chatGPT offers bullshit answers faster, and more confidently. However the issue for openAI is the cost of business is _horrifically_ expensive. Sure they charge some users for premium access, but they aren't currently enough to cover costs. openAI needs a step change in performance, and that meta doesn't release an open-source version of it and a step change in compute efficiency.
Is it faster? I just did similar queries to the ones in the article and ChatGPT (web) spent a long time with an animated "Searching the web" placeholder, then served an error.