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It'll need to make less up, so still worth it.
It doesn't need to make up any.
Use a database if you want something that doesn't make things up, not a neural net.
AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
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Fun. I have people asking ChatGPT support question about my SaaS app, getting made up answers, and then cancelling because we can’t do something that we can. Can’t make this crap up. How do I teach Chat GPT every feature of a random SaaS app?
Write documentation and don't block crawlers.
> … don't block crawlers.
this rhymes a lot with gangsterism.
if you don’t pay our protection fee it would be a shame if your building caught on fire.
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#153I subscribe to Kagi. It's been worth it to have no ads and the ability to uprank/downrank sites. And there's no AI garbage sitting in the top of the engine.
It’s useless. Worse than Google and no AI summary.
If you append a ? to your search it will prompt an AI query. And you can uprank/downrank results so I'm not sure in what universe it could be worse.
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#154In a sense this is similar to what Amazon has been doing in few countries. Find top selling products, get them cheaper from somewhere, rebrand them, rank them higher and sell them. They don't need to invest in market research like their competetors, they get all data from Amazon.com
At big tech scale, this is clearly anti-compete and piracy IMHO.
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#155This means searches are still happening, just being routed elsewhere? I noticed Google's new AI summary let's me click on a link in the summary and the links are posted to the right. Those clicks are available, might not be discovered yet, curious though if those show up anywhere as data. Google being able to create summaries off actual web search results will be an interesting take compared to other models trying to…
They have decades of data to map queries to pages. They also have access to crawl the pages in advance.
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#156The AI overview is wrong in most of the time when I check the referenced links. It's even worse than ads.
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Fun. I have people asking ChatGPT support question about my SaaS app, getting made up answers, and then cancelling because we can’t do something that we can. Can’t make this crap up. How do I teach Chat GPT every feature of a random SaaS app?
Could that be a case of defamation (chatgpt/whatever is damaging your reputation and causing monetary injury)?
Good luck litigating multi billion dollar companies
Re: AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
#159Of course slow, shitty web sites also cause a massive drop in clicks, as soon as an alternative to clicking emerges. It's just like on HN, if I see an interesting title and want to know what the article is about, I can wince and click the article link, but it's much faster and easier to click the HN comments link and infer the info I want from the comments. That difference is almost entirely from the crappy overdesig…
You might want to try out https://hackernews.betacat.io/
Re: AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
#160Of course slow, shitty web sites also cause a massive drop in clicks, as soon as an alternative to clicking emerges. It's just like on HN, if I see an interesting title and want to know what the article is about, I can wince and click the article link, but it's much faster and easier to click the HN comments link and infer the info I want from the comments. That difference is almost entirely from the crappy overdesig…
I like good design as much as the next guy, but only when it does not impact information access. I use eww (emacs web wowser) and w3m sometimes and it's fascinating how much speed you get after stripping away the JS bloat.
js cult will never ever understand this. designers need the courage to work with html+css only.