Content farms have basically eaten the first two to three pages of a typical Google search.
This morning I was trying to find information about the relative safety of different space heater designs, and 95% of the results were long, rambly bullshit posts written by Jim Smith the Extremely Real Engineer Man for AllAboutSpaceHeaters.com and filled with Amazon affiliate links.
Wow, AI is going great. I can't wait to see how this amazing technology will help humanity next.
@confluency
I've started using YouTube for more random stuff every time I search and find shit. The seo people haven't polluted it as much as the open web.
I add “reddit” to many Google queries, and I often get intelligent answers from real redditors. I wonder how long this will last: Reddit is sabotaging themselves by other their upcoming API policy and their quality is bound to suffer.
Less useful are the Quora links that Google adds without prompting.
@encthenet @confluency
*WITH their upcoming API policy
(my app isn’t letting me edit it)