nixCraft 🐧Oct 14

According to multiple reports at X and other social: "The DigitalOcean documentation team was fantastic, but they were laid off just in time for the big LLM content scraping runs that would have catapulted their work into the AI zeitgeist."

I guess the Google AI summary killed it because no more traffic was given to them. It is only a matter of time before many communities that depend on Google search traffic will die off.

Source https://xcancel.com/QuinnyPig/status/1977852223951626372

Show threadnixCraft 🐧Oct 14
Depending on Google is always bad, but in this case, Google acted as a search engine for a long time to find documentation for developers and IT folks. Now, every query is turned into an AI summary, like ChatGPT. Google is no longer a search engine, it is just an AI powered Q&A engine. The problem with this is that nobody is going to create new documentation even paid effort is not worth it for listed companies like Digitalocean, and the AI will keep recycling old documentation i.e hallucination
Show threadLinus Gasser
@nixCraft https://udm14.com/ for the win!
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

Oct 14 at 8:41pmWeb