have they tried putting more more ai in it? the investors all agreed this was the best solution!

I never understood the previews, AI or otherwise. Why would a company pay you for placement when the preview steals your content and puts it above your ad?

Trouble is, the web for which the PageRank algorithm was developed has long since died - its highly decentralized, interlinked network of freely available information has almost entirely been replaced by centralized, account-gated silos. Web search engines, in turn, have gotten progressively worse since long before LLMs had become computationally feasible.

Duckduckgo.com Ftw

I was born to be evil. I’m a member of the Bar Sinister AND I was born on a dark Halloween night. My mother always told me I kept her up all night when I was born.

Bullshit. AI overview is the only thing that stopped the death of Google.

Google’s AI results are what finally got me to switch my default search engine to noai.duckduckgo.

You can set it with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&noai= in your web browser settings.

They ruined their search engine too

It gets even better. The trillion dollar chatbot is not only killing the basis for search but its very own as well: All those content creators, small ones, large ones, commercial ones. They all are dying because of it, yet the chatbot needs constant feeding to stay alive, and will poison itself if fed on its own content. … This will be fun.

I don’t run into or use much AI, but Gemini seems to be the worst I encounter. It does pretty well at presenting facts and summations, but I’ve found it wrong enough times to be leary.

Oh, none of these companies make money! They parasite off from governments practicing free market “Liberalism” giving them things and they do pump and dump stock trading schemes to get good valuations, big investments and big bank loans then just time the accruing and dispersal of their debts carefully.

At some point the investments and saving accounts just start self-reproducing money because we don’t have an economy that expects organizations to have a trillion dollars… So it’s for practical purposes an infinite money glitch.

They don’t make money they just acquire enough of it that the money starts reproducing.

It’s temporary. They’ll start shutting down the non-AI alternatives soon enough and there will be grumbling, but people will fall in line like they always do. This is a minor hit. It’s them mentioning that people aren’t feeding enough into the dumpster fire, but they’re simultaneously sealing off more and more exits.