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Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ElectricTrombone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's the web in general. Pages that have been meticulously altered to score high on the latest search engines so they get the most visibility. I remember several times where the top results were obviously LLM generated text scraped from multiple other pages. Tons and tons of text with absolutely zero substance on the topic I was trying to learn about.

I switched to using Startpage as my search engine now. It works great. It feels like being transported back in time. It gets the results I want. Less websites full of AI generated fluff articles.