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[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 77 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Happens a lot more when the search engine prioritizes SEO farms and random sponsored shit.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s the biggest reason why I use chat gpt. I could search across the web for all sorts of unrelated shit. Or I could get a chatbot to spit out a 90% correct answer and fix the last 10%

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The majority of why people are finding LLMs useful is that they respond to questions without ad-ridden bullshit. Eventually someone will figure out how to riddle them with ads and they too will become useless.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

(Integrated) Copilot already does it. Me: "Question". Copilot: "Answer, and here's half a dozen ads for that thing".

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Been starting to infect Reddit as well in the past couple of years, so the old trick of just adding Reddit to a query is no longer helpful.

God forbid I want to see normal peoples' opinions on what the best [blank] is.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Best blanks in 2024 - we rated all* the best blanks click here to read.

*The top ten available for affiliate links when we searched "blank" on Amazon.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

At least those have narrowed it down. I want to punch someone when it's something like "best 47 blanks in 2024!". Dude, I can look at everything available on the market on my own. Stupid dumbasses.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Serious. Even in the last few months search engines have become total shit. I do a search I've done before, looking for a common issue, and the answer is gone to the aether. Both Bing and Google are absolute horse shit. Tried others and yielded the same results.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

How to defrost Samsung refrigerator?

Results: 9000 ads for the refrigerator and not one user manual or specs page.