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easyjimi1974 t1_j9jjr2t wrote

Google's search engine has been vulnerable to a new entrant for a while - search results are getting worse, platform is clearly not as good as it used to be. Paid results dominate. It's a bad system waiting for a new entrant to knock it off its pedestal. If someone can actually nail contextualized search (not links, but answers with links as references included) I personally think that'll be the end of that model. ChatGPT is an early instance that shows it might become possible to actually do that in the near term.

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samyoualljaxuhn t1_j9kud0i wrote

I remember at one point, the first page of results was good, the second was okay, third was meh and the rest were not remotely relevant. Now it’s first page is okay, and the rest are completely irrelevant.

Edit: and half of the first page is basically sponsored ads!

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The-Initiative t1_j9n1uz1 wrote

And half those paid ads don’t match the search results because google screws the natural results.

Meaning sometimes the ads are more relevant for what you are searching for than Google’s serps.

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RFJobs t1_j9l8qy1 wrote

It was bound to happen. Those with the most money can basically push the information you want down into oblivion.

The first quarter of results are ads or a single sites sitemap of just their login and about page, or Google's own products.

If someone were to monetize ChatGPT or some variation it will devolve the same way. You have to make money somehow.

I can imagine mid sentence chatgpt saying this content brought you by...like on TV.

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plague042 t1_j9joeir wrote

> It's a bad system waiting for a new entrant to knock it off its pedestal

cough Duckduckgo cough

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easyjimi1974 t1_j9jrb9x wrote

🤣 good point. Duckduckgo is much better for search results. But likely not better enough to unseat Google ad the king of search in the general market.

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BassDrive t1_j9jzr7j wrote

Doesn't DuckDuckGo use Bing as its search index?

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