Do you think search results have become better or worse with the introduction of AI?
Do you think search results have become better or worse with the introduction of AI?
Do you think search results have become better or worse with the introduction of AI?
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@[email protected] While I do understand the sentiment, I think the problem with search has been more the ads than anything else
Things like the AI overviews are bad, but search has been more or less powered by AI for a while, it's really just been this new bout of generative AI where they're really saying it out loud
But even without that GenAI, search results have been getting significantly worse for a bit now
@[email protected] Where's the entry for "Much Much Worse"!!!!
@[email protected] Beautiful
@[email protected] About the same
@[email protected] I use AI above search machines. 🤖
@[email protected] Difficult to say IMHO. I rarely use AI for search but apparently it happens in the background a lot. If I search for a specific thing it can get worse (interpreting for a different search phrase) or better (actually finding things). Dedicated AI searches are also a mixed bag. I have bad hallucinations as well as sources I was unable to find the traditional way.
@[email protected] , for me, the most visible parts when it comes to AI is the box at the top, where some answer is selected to be the best answer. This often gives a bad or inaccurate answer.
In addition to that are actual search results, that are AI generated. Often I will have to go down the list of search results to find what I was looking for. The AI generated results are pushing what I am looking for down on the list. Part of the issue is also that search engines are giving regency a big priority, which means that more static content will just disappear.
@[email protected] Search results on “traditional” search engines are terrible. I use @[email protected] and I really like it, but AI helps me quickly find the right information when I know what I'm looking for but I don't remember the exact solution. I don't trust AI enough to ask it about critical things (e.g. health).
@[email protected] worse, but it’s indirect: AI has made the generation of SEO spam much more scalable than search engines’ ability to detect it.
@jon I made use of DDG's AI after I couldn't quite answer my hard question in the results and it basically came to the same conclusion as me several times. I think its worthwhile to use AI for questions of less importance to save some time. I haven't noticed any degeneration of ddg's search results.
Surely you jest.
@[email protected] Do you mean to ask if the internet is filling up with AI generated content? Or whether or not AI summaries provide value to search results? Because AI summaries do not replace or change search results themselves, they are added to the results.
@[email protected] , I guess both. I have really bad experiences with the summaries myself.
@[email protected] I dont think it's possible to quantify (beyond gut feeling...which is ver biased and often wrong) what impact AI is having on search results. AI summaries can only be evaluated against what we know to be true. So there are difficulties there also without doing a well designed experiment.
Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/linus_torvalds_ai_hype/?td=rt-3a
Definitely worse. But I think the bigger problem is the amount of what a search engine returns being AI drivel that has been seo'd to fuck. Sometimes it feels like actively using an AI tool is the only option to ferret out a real answer in a timely fashion (which is also a problem.)
I have a horrible feeling that we are all to soon going to find ourselves with an internet that can only be reasonably interpreted through an AI intermediary like some kind of familiar spirit.
Good thing those can always be trusted right?
@[email protected] I think it depends on the search engine being used.
@[email protected] About the same. Before, you had to do "topic site:reddit.com" to find results. These days, you just type in what you are searching and the AI just matter of factly regurgitates whatever someone else said on Reddit five years ago. #search #reddit #computer #linux
@[email protected] TBF they had started going to shit already a few years earlier, but AI has just made it worse.
@[email protected] As for Google, I don't see any difference in search results before or after AI was introduced. However, the AI-derived text that appears above the search results is annoying.
@[email protected] It depends, on one hand the ability to summarize multiple searh results is a neat feature that saves time, but on the other hand SEO spam has gotten worse.
My experience is that the summary is wrong or not accurate more often that not and clearly not the best answer. I have learned that trusting it for even the most basic of answers, such as which terminal a flight leaves from, to not be trustworthy.
@[email protected] Just because the search engine indexes it doesn't mean it is true. It is the same for AI systems.