The username is the joke.
I’m not putting in more effort than you clowns unless I feel like it lol
Genie is out of the bottle forever unfortunately.
They could have instituted a system of genuine authentic reviewers who manually curate content so that your search is great, but that would result in less clicks. Less clicks means less revenue. They’re financially incentivized to make you click as much as you’re willing to.
I don’t think so man. They were just started to mass train on SEO in the ad industry 15 years ago. Now it’s practically a household term.
Google had very different goals and ambitions early on. Things changed. Now they’re like any other giant soulless corpo. Their goal is revenue, which as their platform has grown we’ve seen a metamorphosis from a focus on interesting things to a never ending professional jester troupe on every endpoint still making pennies on the dollar compared to what google earns from advertisers. They’re the middle men and should be making next to nothing since they produce next to nothing of value, but advertising sells.
Google Search revenue was something like 175bn in 2024. A tiny fraction of that is paid out to websites from clicks. Someone with a proper LLM tuned for SEO can churn out hot garbage nonstop and fill up results in perpetuity with a guaranteed revenue stream far in excess of what is possible as a worker in something in the overwhelming majority of the world. There’s just more garbage than everywhere… and people have found exactly the right formula to rise to the top despite human-useless content. Google doesn’t think of it as a bad thing, 175bn in revenue from search! lol
You misunderstand. I’m not saying AI’s chats are better than a quality article. I’m saying their search results are often better.
Don’t look at what they SAY. Look at the links they provide as sources. Many are bad, but I find I get much better info. If I try google I might try 10+ links before I get one that really says what I want. If I try a chatbot I typically get a link that is relevant within one or two clicks.
There is no shortcut for intelligence… but AI “SEO” has not been perfected yet .
Better search results than google though.
EDIT: DO NOT LOOK AT THE CHAT. LOOK AT THE SOURCE LINKS THEY GIVE YOU.
Unless it’s a handful of official pages or discussion forums… google is practically unusable for me now. It absolutely exploded once chatgpt came to the scene and SEO has gotten so perfected that slop is almost all the results you get.
I wish we had some kind of downvote or report system to remove all the slop, but the more clicks the more revenue from referrals… better to make people click more.
Almost all recipe sites now give me “We see you’re using an adblocker!” until I turn on reader mode on my phone now too. Pretty soon that will be appropriately blocked and I guess i’ll go back to cook books or something?
Does remembering my starcraft cd key count?
Melt the butter in the pan then put the bread on it.
I don’t know why anyone would try spreading cold butter on cold bread lol.
Low and slow is the way.
I do like the chef john method though. Crispy cheese on the outside and gooey cheese on the inside. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/236502/inside-out-grilled-cheese-sandwich/
I kinda figured this would be another corn post. We have a veritable cornucopia of corn. Golden, white, popped, creamed, all possible varieties.
Do right by your grandma. Order corn.
I would steal thine ear…. 🌽
This is the wrong fucking outcome…
The verdict should have been what protects consumers the most, not what benefits advertisers the most. Apple should have been forced to add the same privacy inquiries to their own first party apps.
A ton of factors have increased energy costs on the web over the years. It’s insignificant per person, but bandwidth is exponentially higher because all websites have miles of crud formatting code nowadays. Memory usage is out of control. Transmission and storage of all the metadata your web browser provides in realtime as you move your mouse around a page is infinitely higher than what we had in the early days of the web.
The energy cost of ML will reduce as chips progress, but I think the financial reality will come crashing down on the AI industry sooner rather than later and basically keep it out of reach for most people anyway due to cost. I don’t see much of ROI for AI. Right now it’s treated as a capital investment which helps inflate company worth while it lasts, but after a few years the investment is worthless and a giant money sink from energy costs if used.