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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That used to be Google, when they were interested in providing quality results and showing ads alongside those results, instead of just.. being an ad company.

Before that, it was Yahoo, when they were interested in providing quality results, and showing ads, instead of just being an ad company.

Before that, it was AltaVista, when they were...

...Ask Jeeves...

We'll see who's next.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget Lycos!

[–] I_Miss_Daniel 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And HotBot.

[–] Viking_Hippie 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And WebCrawler!

[–] frunch 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And MetaCrawler!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mid late nineties, WC was my favorite. Felt like it had the best results.

[–] Viking_Hippie 0 points 10 months ago

Same here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Go get it!

[–] frunch 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been hearing Kagi is very good but i don't know if I'm ready to start paying for a search engine. Given the direction things are headed through, it could be worth considering

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can say that kagi is really good, yes. I don't know if google search was actually ever this good on its own, but I'm finding it a real breath of fresh air

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's a lot better value for families, too. Much like spotify. I wouldn't pay £8/m for myself, but I would pay £16 for 6 people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I've been looking at those plans, yeah... Currently on the lowest tier for myself, and it is pricey but personally worth it, and I want to support the project

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You can even share the same account with your family because your queries are not logged and won't show up in another computer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Time to bring back web rings lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

web rings

We've come, uh, full circle indeed

[–] HackyHorse3000 1 points 10 months ago

Kagi basically did with Smallweb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've switched to perplexity.ai. yes it's AI, but it gives me the answer I was looking for in a short snippet of information. I can then go scour the sources if I want too. It's completely replaced Google for me.