Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
www.theverge.com
Out: 10 blue links. In: all AI everything.
  • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Nah. It’s not going to be “AI.” It’s going to be YouTube results, followed by Reddit results, followed by “Sponsored” results, followed by AI-written Bot results, then a couple pages of Amazon results and finally, on page 10 or so, a ten-year-old result that’s probably no longer relevant.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This is really funny to me because Google ruined their own search engine for advertising purposes; so much so that they now need to add “AI” to it to look good and hip again. Only if the “AI” results are actually good, it will hurt their advertising revenue, and it’s not quite so simple to tweak it the same way they cooked their search algorithms to serve you more ads, plus it will burn an ungodly amount of money to process each request. And if it’s bad, they’ll have wasted billions on it and will ruin their reputation even worse.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Search sucks for some time now. I’d say the best thing google offers today is Gmail - but there are plenty of arguments against that too.

      • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Google Maps, their traffic data has no rivals, unlike gmail which has plenty of good competition. It’s the one thing I couldn’t easily replace yet.

        • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I prefer OSM since I can use the maps offline. Google maps is useless out in the middle of nowhere without any cell service.

          • growsomethinggood ()@reddthat.comEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Not to discourage usage of OSM at all, but you can absolutely download offline maps on mobile with Google Maps, they’ve just hidden it a bit. If you tap your account icon in the upper right, a menu pops up that includes offline maps, and it’ll let you select boundaries to download.