AI killed the search engine stars
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Sung to "Video killed the radio star". Just to put that in your head for the rest of the day :) With the rise of AI, it seems to me that many search results are now AI generated answers on websites following recipes designed to garner ad hits. Many with the same exact wording and same tables of contents. With some questions, it's tough to locate a real website that has factual answers. It certainly varies with the question or topic, but it feels like it is on the increase. Had some where those make up the top handful of sites. So, will these become a battle of AI, with search engines AI removing or deprioritizing those or maybe the sites will up their own AI game to get around the SE algorithms? Strikes me as ironic, we'll see whose AI is better than whose. And if you don't have the song in your head, here it is for you The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video) - YouTube[^]
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Sung to "Video killed the radio star". Just to put that in your head for the rest of the day :) With the rise of AI, it seems to me that many search results are now AI generated answers on websites following recipes designed to garner ad hits. Many with the same exact wording and same tables of contents. With some questions, it's tough to locate a real website that has factual answers. It certainly varies with the question or topic, but it feels like it is on the increase. Had some where those make up the top handful of sites. So, will these become a battle of AI, with search engines AI removing or deprioritizing those or maybe the sites will up their own AI game to get around the SE algorithms? Strikes me as ironic, we'll see whose AI is better than whose. And if you don't have the song in your head, here it is for you The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video) - YouTube[^]
This seems to be the trend on Microsoft. It started with generic canned responses (maybe a backdoor prototype AI) that I always felt were off and general useless. Now when I am looking for technical info, it smells like Microsoft's AI. I suppose it's the next evolution of search engines.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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Sung to "Video killed the radio star". Just to put that in your head for the rest of the day :) With the rise of AI, it seems to me that many search results are now AI generated answers on websites following recipes designed to garner ad hits. Many with the same exact wording and same tables of contents. With some questions, it's tough to locate a real website that has factual answers. It certainly varies with the question or topic, but it feels like it is on the increase. Had some where those make up the top handful of sites. So, will these become a battle of AI, with search engines AI removing or deprioritizing those or maybe the sites will up their own AI game to get around the SE algorithms? Strikes me as ironic, we'll see whose AI is better than whose. And if you don't have the song in your head, here it is for you The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video) - YouTube[^]
MikeCO10 wrote:
...many search results are now AI generated answers on websites following recipes designed to garner ad hits...
Isn't that the same recipe Google has been using for years?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas SowellA day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
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MikeCO10 wrote:
...many search results are now AI generated answers on websites following recipes designed to garner ad hits...
Isn't that the same recipe Google has been using for years?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas SowellA day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)It is, but the results are often AI generated junk, maxing out the SEO rules. For example, If I ask how do I trim a tree (I didn't check it, just an example), there can be several of the top results that are AI copies, for lack of a better word. Maybe that points to an issue with AI; it creates its own validity based on a consensus of responses. One could easily become a bogus authority by spending very little money buying junk domain names and reposting the same content several times. I'd almost bet if I created a bunch of sites, or more so pages in my existing domains maybe, stating that asteroid QX95-217 may hit the earth in six months, the search engines AI could create credibility. Especially so if the AI "farmers" post more sites with the same information. Sure, it was doable before AI, but it wasn't so easy and there really wasn't a way to create validity based on consensus.