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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate that part about AI accelerating SEO spam?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

I think OP is referring to the fact that bad actors, who are exploiting facets of SEO (rather then providing "meaningful" content), use to need to programically generate content (pre-AI/LLM).

For a real reader, it was obvious (at a quick glance) this was meaningless garbage. As they would often be large walls of text that didn't make sense, or just lists of random key words.

With LLM/AI, they're still walls of text and random key words, but now they grammatically/structurally correct and require no real effort to generate. Unfortunately, it means that the reader actually need to invest time in reading it. You'll also notice a growing trend in articles (especially in "compare X vs Y" type articles), the same content is recycled and rephrased to "pad" the article and give it a higher SEO ranking.