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points by dubeyaayush07 4 days ago | 0 comments

It's not like Google had a choice. Asking AI is superior to browsing links in 90% of use cases, and they would have been disrupted otherwise.

Browsing a curated list of the worst SEO generated spam, sure. Anything is better. Wait for SEO advertising to come to AI summary.

It's already here, ask AI for a product recommendation and it will recommend whichever company has the highest Reddit astroturfing budget.

Yeah but there is more competition in that space which might delay/slowdown the inevitable enshitification

Google search became considerably worse around 2019 when they started using LLMs for indexing, which make it ignore keywords it deemed "irrelevant".