Dare ObasanjoWelcome to the cycle of generative AI making search worse.
Quora uses ChatGPT which hallucinates an answer to a nonsense question.
Google Search picks up this nonsense answer from Quora which has high page rank and treats it as an instant answer.
ā¯“ucblockhead@carnage4life I think I've never seen a company work so long and effectively at making their own core product objectively worse than Google has.
Google could, today, make a massive improvement to their product simply by going back to their 2005 search.
April King@ucblockhead @carnage4life it would have to go back to 2005 content as well, 2005 Google would be absolutely murdered by SEO and AI nonsense.
Rairii@april @ucblockhead @carnage4life 2005 search, but with all the downranking improvements that Matt Cutts made in the interim