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points by hamdingers 5 days ago | 0 comments

Why would a summary of unreliable blogspam results be more reliable than the blogspam results themselves?

I find it easier to recognize bullshit from its source vs an LLM's confident and well written regurgitation of it.

I consistently get the impression that Gemini is better at sorting through the trash than whatever ranks SERPs these days is.

(Obviously far from perfect, often far from even good... just better.)

Which is not a good look for the Search teams/execs.

[–] rbits 4 days ago

If Gemini's good at sorting through search results, and they're already using Gemini on every search, why don't they use it to help filter out the SEO spam?

[–] exmadscientist 23 hours ago

It's got to be either scale (one Gemini call per query versus one each per SERP result, or something silly like that) or just internal turf wars.

Probably the latter.

Like I said, not a good look for Search.

[–] sailfast 5 days ago

Only if the answer is already on Reddit.

[–] zamadatix 5 days ago

The summary isn't limited to the top 10 search results as sources so it need not be only based on blogspam like the first page of search results is/was. Whether or not it's actually better or not is still its own debate beside that point though.

[–] __MatrixMan__ 5 days ago

Because the summarizer knows what blogspam is.

[–] k12sosse 4 days ago

Funny how many RSSINGS pages still turn up in traditional Google search though