Google today reminds me of what AltaVista became before Google. ChatGPT is amazing but now it and other LLMs are being used to generate crap content. I fear that the incestuous nature of AI training on AI may lead to “inbreeding” and all the problems that brings with it.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Super interesting the trick we all thought was a secret, stopped working, and now executives from one of the worlds biggest companies are having trouble as a result lol
This trick used to be common before embedded searches were actually decent. Wikipedia in particular took a long time before their search was even close to "site:wikipedia.org [search term]". I think the saddest part is that people seemed to forget about it for so long until realizing they could use it for Reddit too. So far the trick seems to work for lemmy if you point it at an arbitrary instance like lemmy.world, the content just isn't quite there yet.
I think people forgot how things were before apps and the centralization of social media in so few domains.
People forgot web browsers are the app of all apps.
Search will probably come down to you having a personal AI agent that will broker with other AI agents for relevant data. It will likely become a hell scape.
I discovered the kagi search engine last week and it's so much better. No ads. I can move favored sites up or pin them in the search results.
Boo fucking hoo
No shit lol
I've been using qwant for a couple years now without any issue. It mainly uses Bing as a backend.
Current way to search on google for me is: Add reddit to search string, and set data to before may 1st 2023 Copy link suggested by google and change reddit to reveddit or any of the alternatives there
Results will go out of date but maybe this will tide me over until a good lemmy search is up and running.
Most of the time you can just click the 3 dots at the side of the search result and then click the "Cached" button on the bottom of the popup.
This is a good change as it may expand to more sites. I'm one of those users that used reddit in query often looking for opinions or reviews. We should get Lemmy on the list.