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.
Stuck Here@april @ucblockhead @carnage4life
SEO nonsense reminds me of the aggregator problem search engines once had. You'd go looking for something and the top results were all pages directing you to the pages that hopefully had the answer you needed.
It's because of SEO that my important searches always have the search term "forum". Some forum board or old Reddit comment will have a good starting point for the rest of my search.
Can't wait until algorithms ding sites with too much SEO.