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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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Spread the word.
Hello, so, does it matter where I type this? Before or after the words I'm searching for?
You can look up URL parameter structure online, but the short version is that you use ? if it is the first parameter (no other ? in the URL), or & otherwise.
So you can use:
https://google.com/?udm=14and then search for something.https://google.com/?q=question&udm=14by adding it with an&after an existing search
I recommend adding a custom search engine to your browser with this baked in. It's incredibly easy in Firefox and it's derivatives, with a ton of tutorials online.
I see, thank you!
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It's a URL parameter that forces Google to only show search results, like it used to do. No AI crap, no "widgets", no bullsh*t.
You can configure most browsers to include this in searches by default, effectively making Google decent again.
Holy hell, really? That’s so useful.
Yep. There's TONS of nerd tricks for this sort of stuff that would make people's lives way easier, but are somehow reserved for geeks and nerds (like how you can actually make Windows decent by saying you're in the EU and using O&O ShutUp10++, Power toys and that kind of stuff).
And yet, they still serve malicious ads before the actual search results. Just ruined a user's day over such an ad tricking them into running malicious code. You'd think their AI could figure out when an ad link is impersonating a legitimate site and not serve the malicious ad. But, since they aren't held responsible for serving malicious links, they have a negative incentive to fix the problem.
2nd panel doesn't make much sense. Google was always an "AI" mixing ads into search results. There weren't any humans. This is one algorithm (LLM) replacing another ( PageRank plus logic code ).
I believe the implication is that all humans at the company have been laid off. And PageRank was not neural network to my knowledge but I also don't work at Google so I won't say it's impossible that they have been lying about that for some reason. At some point they started adding adverts and sorting results using a neural network, which one could argue likely works similar to the input of an LLM.
The implication of the second is however that the content of the pages displayed as search results are being summarized by AI while incorporating advertising, making it impossible to separate the advert from the rest.
Oh sure the rest of the panels make sense but the second one is LLM ai vs traditional ai.
PageRank was not neural network to my knowledge
AI is more than neural net code. Chess programs used to be AI in the 1960's. Pagerank and the code around it automated away Yahoo's human curated lists.