David WahlInternet search is just a couple of weeks away from becoming "we've read all the links on this page and here is a summary that assumes everything in them is true."
Good luck with that.
Shanya (Over at BlueSky)@zoomar Went to see if there was a distributed search engine and at least per Wikipedia all development ceased in 2003, save for the mention of one person's PhD paper from 2017.
Benton@zoomar SEO farms churn out low quality content to rank higher in search results. Even without AI, we’re already there for a large number of search categories!
gavinisdie 
@zoomar searching online is just useless
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@zoomar here's a summary of them, *some of which I may have just made up* …
Domestic Supply 
@zoomar I saw it online, it must be true.
Ron Chmara@zoomar We have software written based on what people read on (or copy pasted from) stack exchange, using blogs and other self-publishing opinions to guide their direction, and of course, that all then gets re-bundled and rephrased to reinforce what came before.
Turtles all the way down, and the turtles are very, very confident in their expertise.