if it was terrible before then this doesn't change anything
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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You guys can hate on this but I, for one, have always dreamed of unreliable search results with links to relevant businesses embedded within the text. If only a voice assistant could read them out loud and also remind me to drink Pepsi every other paragraph, we’ll finally have achieved the promise of the Internet.
Nah man, you want New Coke. Catch the wave.
Cool, now it's terrible and annoying. Use another search engine.
why would any of google's customers pay to stuff its ads into such a broken feature?
it's like embossing your logo within a toilet bowl -- sure, a lot of people will get to see it but mostly only when it's submerged in shit.
AI as far as big tech is concerned is simply a way to "fix" search engines so that they don't do the awful crime of fundamentally segregating ads from search results.
it is literally the whole damn point of shoving AI down everybodies throat...
it is literally the whole damn point of shoving AI down everybodies throat...
To be fair, it didn't start out that way. A lot of tech companies just didn't want to be seen as being behind while OpenAI was making shockwaves around the globe. Iirc, after ChatGPT hit the mainstream a couple years ago, Google's CEO was said to have sent a company-wide email demanding their own AI research become their number 1 priority.
Now that they finally have their own competitive model, they have to justify why they spent hundreds of millions of dollars over numerous years on this tech. Unfortunately for the rest of us, this just means enshittification will reach new levels... sigh...
"This other company is lying about how good their product is and everyone is buying their bullshit. We can't miss the bandwagon!"
It would be hilarious if Pichai actually sent an email like this (or even more aggressive and truthful).
Ads have become so deeply embedded into search results that even Google now can no longer tell the difference between them!?!?
It can, it's just unprofitable
I wonder... how many months would it take even Google to sort it all out now, if it wanted to? At some point, even if they haven't crossed it yet, certain knowledge simply becomes lost forever.
Done with Google. Now paying $5 a month to use Kagi.com. Worth it.
I’ll stop going online before I have to pay for a fucking search engine.
In case anyone reading this is curious, Kagi is not capable of storing the impossibly vast and expensive data storage and speeds required to query large indexes of the internet, and so leverages Google and Bing indexes in its search, which is exactly what SearXNG and DuckDuckGo both do for free.
What you pay for is honestly a fancy UI and the ability to quality control the search results for them, again already done for free by other search engines.
Wait, for real? I really thought kagi had its own thing going on, and that was why people would pay for it. Not like a fully bespoke index, but I assumed it was more than that. I guess the "quality control" is what I had heard about.
There's no way on Satan's green earth that a small startup company started in 2018 has a search engine index as large and fast as the one started 30 years ago and has been indexing the entire internet since then (Google). Even Microsoft can't compete without dumping billions of dollars into Bing by forcing people to use it as default on their operating systems, renting/purchasing the now ancient Yahoo indexing databases, leeching software engineer talent from competitors with promises of huge paychecks, and greasing hands in China.
Yup. I signed up to their unlimited a while ago, so I was happy to not notice this at all. 🙂👍
Same. Completed my switch this week on all my devices. No regrets. The results are excellent and well organized and it’s really useful.
Next project is to add the rest of my family to the family plan