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shiroininjaPeople really trust it? Like it’s been so wrong on things for me, I automatically skip to search results past it. Why bother anymore
google search has been trash even before llms, i believe its one of the reasons chatgpt got so much traction. first 2 pages are just generic slop with paywalled or ad-infested content.
i switched to kagi 2 years ago and its has relevant results on page 1 that i won’t get in google even after 10s of pages. plus i don’t bombed with ads for that term for weeks.
they purposefully fucked yup they search so people would have to click more pages to find their answer, giving google a chance to display more ads.
I have a different theory. Google started scrapping Reddit since its gone public, so I think this is a strategy to get people to use [search query] + reddit in order to find answers, so that Google can scrape that data to train their AI
this isn’t a theory of mine, it came out in leaked testimony. totally intentional enshittification for profit
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