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turns out duckduckgo does AI search result summaries too, although at least you can turn the little bastards off
it’s 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, you’re right, and that’s why neither of us are advertising executives
Off-the-cuff prediction: there probably won't 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 aren't 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 it's 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 "site:www.reliable-website.example" tags)
It was definitely a useful product, but ultimately it relies on human labor to surface quality results closer to the top.