alt Hacker NewsI was just thinking exactly the same. Basic web search has become so horrible that AI is being used as its replacement.
I found it a sad condemnation of how far the tech industry has fallen into enshittification and is failing to provide tools that are actually useful.
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gh0stcat • today at 4:22 AM
We always had the technology to do things better, it's the money making part that has made things worse technologically speaking. In this same way, I don't see how AI will resolve the problem - our productivity was never the goal, and that won't change any time soon.
johnnyanmac • today at 4:48 AM
And it'll happen again when AI models start resorting to ads once again.
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Wobbles42 • today at 6:34 AM
Their tools are very useful. To their customers. Not to their users.
> Basic web search has become so horrible
It is not horrible, it reached the point of absolute excellence. Not for you, the user - but for making money for the creator. Remember, no one paid for web search, so you are the product. If you are the provider of the web search engine, the point of having web search is not deliver the best search result to the user, but maximize the amount of money you can make from the sum of the world population. And google did very good in maximizing their profits, without users turning away from them.