Disclaimer: this video came out a week before ChatGPT, that's why it's not mentioned 😅The Google Search search engine is dying. The giant that shaped the in...
Esp. relevant amidst the reddit blackout, and how it’s affecting Google Search quality as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ikr, nightmare scenario… but that’s just a market niche that someone will eventually fill