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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Today people append Reddit to their search to find human replies to their question. If the Reddit community fragments into the fediverse what keyword would they type in then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Hot take: The old way of searching is outdated.

Bing Chat is rough, but it's the future. You ask it a question - it uses a modified ChatGPT to generate an answer and cites its sources.

About 60% of the time, it's right. About 40% of the time it's wrong. But either way, it cites its sources using links that it found during that search. You can click those sources and see responses from humans, who generally have the correct answer.

I rarely use Google now. Bing Chat is always my first stop for any kind of question or general knowledge query. Give it 5 years - 10 at most - and that'll be the only way to use a search engine. The tech isn't going anywhere, and it's only getting better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

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