Before cheap and effective SEO utterly ruined it? That was a very, very, very long time ago. As early as 2003, Google had to start rolling out countermeasures because legitimate businesses were complaining that the search results had been gamed so badly. By 2014, keyword stuffing has made Google nearly useless as a search engine.
Finding accurate information about aboriginal Americans online is already hard as hell and was filled with inaccuracies already. With AI I fear more cultural erasure by flooding search results with sludge information. As a guy that studies Aztecs this shit drives me nuts.
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Carvex@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 340d
Remember when google was the best, cleanest, no bullshit search engine and boolean search terms helped? Pepperidge Farms remembers
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 340d
Before cheap and effective SEO utterly ruined it? That was a very, very, very long time ago. As early as 2003, Google had to start rolling out countermeasures because legitimate businesses were complaining that the search results had been gamed so badly. By 2014, keyword stuffing has made Google nearly useless as a search engine.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 340d
Using -ai to remove ai results from Google search. Sometimes the ai "helpfully" quotes the -ai, rendering it non-functional. How helpful!
MisterNeon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 340d
Finding accurate information about aboriginal Americans online is already hard as hell and was filled with inaccuracies already. With AI I fear more cultural erasure by flooding search results with sludge information. As a guy that studies Aztecs this shit drives me nuts.
starchylemming@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d
quotes haven't worked anywhere in image search for years
did they ever work? does any site still offer a working image search ?
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d
In this case they were used to specifically break the function of another search tool. But yes, I also noticed that