Esp. relevant amidst the reddit blackout, and how it’s affecting Google Search quality as well.

  • Pegatron@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is almost a worst case scenario to me. There was a time when I could search the internet and find long form articles written by experts in the field, or at least by knowledgeable people answering the question that I had and often giving me a deep dive. These days I can search the title of an article I know exists and it will still be buried beneath pages of SEO driven AI generated garbage. I get the feeling that many of these sites and writers shut down simply because there was no reason to generate content that would be buried.

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      1 year ago

      I also want to be able to search anonymously instead of saving my entire search history on a very easily identifiable account on a massive corporations servers.

    • Khalic@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Ikr, nightmare scenario… but that’s just a market niche that someone will eventually fill