• @[email protected]
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    112 months ago

    Google became shit not because of AI but because of SEO.

    The enshitification was going on long before OpenAI was even a thing. Remember when we had to add the “reddit” tag just to make sure to get actual results instead of some badly written bloated text?

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      142 months ago

      Google search became shit when they made the guy in charge of ads also in charge of search.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        this is actually the correct case - it is both written about (prabhakar raghavan, look him up), and the exact mechanics of how they did it were detailed in documents surfaced in one of the lawsuits that google recently lost (the ones that found they them to be a monopoly)

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months ago

          Ackshually, Google became shit when they started posturing as a for-profit entity. Gather round, comrades, let us sing the internationale