> In fact, this criticism extends to all search engines, including the one I use, DuckDuckGo. But since Google is still the dominant one, this article is focused on them.
Oh ok so clickbait title.
The whole premise of the article is quite silly. No thanks, I don't want a human connection and asking someone for help when looking up information.
There is plenty to be criticized about Google and modern web but this ain't it.
> No thanks, I don't want a human connection and asking someone for help when looking up information.
Ironically, at the rate the quality of Google results is current diminishing, you may need a human connection in order to have any sense that the information you are getting is accurate in the very near future.
I think it won't be the worst thing if curation is seen as valuable again.
Are the SEO people not busily trying to game ChatGPT? It may be harder, and the cycle times longer, but I wouldn't expect LLMs to be any more immune than Google's algorithm. The algorithm, at least, has human intervention, while LLMs black boxes.
It's great if ChatGPT is temporarily better, but I don't expect it to last. We still have an attention economy and a lot of people want a piece of it. They'll put a lot of money and effort to get it.
I’d actually read the article if it was poems, especially funny ones. Instead it’s 10 paragraphs of SEO’d “history” of food, how much their dead great-grandma’s 2nd cousin loved this recipe, shameless self promotion, and some vague thing about how this’ll fix your marriage and keep the kids happy.
All that for a 3-step recipe to make baked potatoes, and all you needed out of it was the time & temp because you already had it prepped beforehand.
Oh ok so clickbait title.
The whole premise of the article is quite silly. No thanks, I don't want a human connection and asking someone for help when looking up information.
There is plenty to be criticized about Google and modern web but this ain't it.