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1. rickdeckard · 1790071699 · focus · HN ↗

   Somehow a homemade problem for Google.

   I never asked them to waste additional resources by injecting my blunt keyword-query into an AI-cluster and guesstimate a well-formed article from that.

   But here I am, with (elder) relatives sending me Google search-results on topics like they are proper articles...

   1. JKCalhoun · 1790073763 · focus · HN ↗

      "Somehow a homemade problem for Google."

      Wow, I thought you were going to talk about selling ads and how that has made search shite.

      1. lelanthran · 1790074944 · focus · HN ↗

         Google always sold ads. Google weren't always shite, though.

         They, themselves, sorta proved that a good product could become dominant with ads and without being shite.

         1. JKCalhoun · 1790082865 · focus · HN ↗

            I'm allowing that there is a delay between selling ads and the rising tide of SEO enshitification that follows. Money is still at the root of the decline of the internet.
      2. rickdeckard · 1790075241 · focus · HN ↗

         well, Selling ads in general wasn't a problem 15 years ago.

         The pre-AI enshitification-part where they realized that worse search-results means more searches so more ad-revenue is another story.

         If they wouldn't have done that, they could be the proof that a well-maintained search-engine is still better than a LLM.

         But now this will never happen, as no-one will be willing to give up that additional search revenue while overall usage is going down...

      3. knollimar · 1790075370 · focus · HN ↗

         Or degrading their keyword operators to be more mobile friendly

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