Depends on what I'm looking for. A recipe or historical event I only remember vague facts about? Spot on. A current event, meme from 10 years ago, or a song that has 1000 views or less? Schizo hallucinations fueled by a conglomerate of vaguely related reddit posti actually use the AI overview pretty often. it's helpful
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Depends on what I'm looking for. A recipe or historical event I only remember vague facts about? Spot on. A current event, meme from 10 years ago, or a song that has 1000 views or less? Schizo hallucinations fueled by a conglomerate of vaguely related reddit post
the main reason i've welcomed the AI overview is exactly this. maybe around 5 years ago there was a HUGE decline in search quality. i used to be able to instantly find the exact info i was looking for 90%+ of the time, now i'm lucky if some random redditor has asked the same question before and it's been answered.In my experience google's search went bad way before they ever introduced the AI overview. It just stopped finding stuff which I was looking for, or just found sporadic results between numerous unrelated and irrelevant ones. It heavily favoured certain websites in its results and ignored others.
So they made it suck, then introduced crap to make it seem better.the main reason i've welcomed the AI overview is exactly this. maybe around 5 years ago there was a HUGE decline in search quality. i used to be able to instantly find the exact info i was looking for 90%+ of the time, now i'm lucky if some random redditor has asked the same question before and it's been answered.
it's not crap though. it'll find the exact part of a video i need for me by scrubbing through the vid's transcript. yes it's not perfect, and yes i'd certainly prefer that google search itself be as functional as it was 10 years ago, but i'm not going to throw out the baby with the bathwater just because recoiling at everything AI is in vogue.So they made it suck, then introduced crap to make it seem better.
Thats like jacking up a product's price by 300% then having a "50% off sale!".
You will be getting strikes from this for years to come, like my comments on that Setting Things Straight with Brats manga. (Which I still think is crap, I regret nothing)i actually use the AI overview pretty often. it's helpful
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it's not just you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#Google_Search https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/In my experience google's search went bad way before they ever introduced the AI overview. It just stopped finding stuff which I was looking for, or just found sporadic results between numerous unrelated and irrelevant ones. It heavily favoured certain websites in its results and ignored others.