jerdencooke
nixCraft 🐧I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!
Michael W Lucas 
Skip the AI. Go over to More, click the Web drop-down. Almost like the old Google.
Or use DDG, of course.
@mwl that is a wonderful tip. thanks :)
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Luna Lactea@jackemled @nixCraft well, poop!
ENIGMATICO 
@nixCraft When the AI is more honest than the company that produces and offers the AI to consumers...
Rihards Olups
lgsp is movingIs this a thread in reddit to steer google answer? 🤣
Can you post the link? I want to upvote
Sure, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1cbjogh/the_man_who_killed_google_search/ .
On the plus side, Google isn't completely messed up yet - in xitter there would be a meltdown and everybody's top priority would be to kill any posts, search results etc related to this =)
Patrick GillamAlmost makes me think AI might offer decent info after all.
Arthur@nixCraft somehow im in Minnesota, not using a VPN, and not using an enterprise account, and yet I'm not getting the AI BS.
Woo hoo!!
Akkana Peck@AverseABFun @nixCraft Like @AverseABFun haven't seen any of this AI stuff yet. I guess they're rolling it out slowly. But I'm sure it's coming.
Tom Bellin 
@nixCraft the inset image of him dressed as a clown is a bit on the nose.
Ernie Smith@nixCraft This rules.
chx@nixCraft you are falling for it. How do you know this AI overview is actually factual? I mean, it accidentally is but you are falling for it. Careful out there.
Deus@nixCraft Yandex for stuff Google won't show you. Heck, they even had Visual Search even before Google implemented it.
Peter Jakobs ⛵@nixCraft growth metrics! So important!
(if you are an executive and your compensation is primarily in stock)
(if you are an executive and your compensation is primarily in stock)
zetabetanow when alphabet inc has good experience of monetizing and spoiling search, next one is android. will android become alphabet inc's new swamp.
Noel KellyClassic enshittification.
RejZoR@nixCraft I frankly don't care. Google is dead to me. Only reason it's still lingering around is because of Android phone...
Simplistic Trance‐Like Getaway@nixCraft ai has been taking over many things, some good and some bad. It’s get kind of annoying, to me anyway.
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Trafotin@nixCraft IMO Prabhakar probably did not ruin Google search, but he was most certainly a cultural contributor to its downfall. The quote probably comes from this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story
Jinx@nixCraft reminds me of when Siri said the Lumia 900 was the best smartphone.
https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/apple-changes-siris-embarrassing-nokia-favouritism-78210
I wonder if Google will interfere with the response in a similar fashion.
Keith Jenkins@nixCraft and if you ask why, the AI mentions that "Google ... will delete inactive Google accounts ... unless they are used for something illegal." !!
Andrew Douglass@nixCraft Google wasn’t ruined until 2019? That’s the real takeaway tbh.
It started going downhill 20 years ago.
But, because not enough people were paying attention, it was not widely reported.
It also demosrates that the corpus that google is using does not go back far.
Waitman GobbleThere was an article a few years ago about the "people who are the algorithm". a large number of Minimum-wagish young people primarily located in the Midwest USA would prioritize the (english) search results pages. For example searching for "red car" returns a category page of 100 sites, and some young person decides what shows up #1 - 100. It's not likely one searches a "live database". The main issue with this is most of the time the worker can't afford the products they are prioritizing, so how would they know which red car is #1, 2, 3, etc. I suppose big G is using that "training" for it's AI thingy. But the most interesting thing about this is that companies have spent crazy money on "SEO" gurus and crap. which makes the expense meaningless in that regard lol.
Emir Morataon 🏴☠️@nixCraft and to many spam in CEO from blog or big company in e-commerce
Gwyn@nixCraft That is perfect, I love it. 😄
skua@nixCraft
Hmmm.
Google search was seriously degenerating from prior to 2016.
I used to reseach metadata on obscure LPs.
Google search just got worse and worse and worse.