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‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI (www.theguardian.com)
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Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.

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[–] SirLeToet@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, google been shit for over a decade now. Not long after SEO became the norm and Google figured out a way to profit from it.

LLMs have saved internet searching. For the first time in years, i am getting (usually) relevant information for my questions.

And not some sponsored or SEO optimized shithole.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

LLMs have saved internet searching. For the first time in years, i am getting (usually) relevant information for my questions.

I tend to disagree on that part. LLMs in a web search should be opt in, not opt out. They do help, but not always. For many searches that I have the answer right in the first result (sometimes even in its preview along the link) there's an LLM running and needlessly wasting resources, summarising very often what I already know.

[–] SirLeToet@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I agree that LLMs should be opt-in.

However i am often working on projects with garbage or huge documentation, or community boards, that in the past would require a good bit of googlefu to figure out.

Google became absolutely useless for that task. LLMs saved internet search that isnt shallow.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, in the end it depends on the use case. Some things are a simple search away, others need compiling of information (manually or with the help of an LLM).

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

LLMs have saved internet searching. For the first time in years, i am getting (usually) relevant information for my questions.

lol well that explains some things..