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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
turns out duckduckgo does AI search result summaries too, although at least you can turn the little bastards off
itās unfortunate that all the Google alternatives big enough to matter are all-in on making the exact same mistakes as Google at roughly the same time, probably in hopes that one of them can swoop in and take the top dog spot when the monopoly ruling finally makes Google stumble
and if that sounds like a fucking stupid plan, youāre right, and thatās why neither of us are advertising executives
Off-the-cuff prediction: there probably wonāt be one dominant search engine after Google stumbles, for a few reasons:
All of them are making the exact same mistakes as Google, as self noted (when they arenāt having their own unique dumpster fires)
AI has made it much easier to spam searches with SEO shite, so any attempts at algorithmic search risk being spammed to death in short order
Public trust in tech is utterly shot to hell - not sure how much people trust search specifically, but I suspect people are currently trusting word-of-mouth (e.g. Reddit, TikTok) over whatever any of the major search engines are providing right now
In retrospect google since itās inception, when it was still good, google always actually relied on human curation. Primary component of pagerank were:
(Which is still a way to get value out of google by adding āsite:www.reliable-website.exampleā tags)
It was definitely a useful product, but ultimately it relies on human labor to surface quality results closer to the top.