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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is one topic I’m quite willing to go into conspiracy theory territory on, because Google have a lot of very clever engineers and must surely know that their search is dogshit.

The only plausible explanation is that they’re somehow making more money doing this than they did by being quietly competent.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s not a conspiracy. It’s been confirmed. The head of ads forced the search team to make search worse so people would search more and see more ads. There is no reason to use google search, they want it to suck.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes, but also: the web has become worse lately. All the search engines seem to be suffering.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

some site, or words i was searching just last week showed up many results, for some reason it stopped showing the samre results. its showing less now.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hmmm I wonder what the alternative is I wonder hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[–] Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

i am not really sure what you mean with alternative?

I mean the web has become worse because of AI

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why not actually say the alternatives??

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bluemoon@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

so you mean the alternative to bad searchresults inevitably is AI for the vast majority of people. hence AI prevalence

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Smugly smirks in Kagi

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Quite obvious even before I've read favoredponcho's comment. Just scraping web to deliver context matching results brings no money. Ads bring money. Case solved

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Not even a conspiracy theory, really. They hired the head of search over at Yahoo (?!!) and he had the explicit mandate to make search more profitable.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They know it's trash. But searching multiple times and weeding through dogshit, you spend more time on their site looking at ads, unless you use ublock, then it's just annoying to the user.

https://youtu.be/4wCGVrAn4qY

https://youtu.be/5c3AJb53Xos

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That first video was great. Subbed

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

You think engineers are in charge and making the money?