FudgyMcTubbs comments on Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

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[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not OP, but I find the DDG results are SEO sites at the top for pages.

My search: how to fit a dog collar

Top 50 results from DDG:

fitting a dog collar is difficult and many people wonder how to fit a dog collar. This article will show you how to fit a dog collar.

A dog collar is difficult to fit. Perhaps you've wondered how to fit a dog collar.

To be fair, SEO ruined the internet and Internet searches well before AI and it's not DDG's fault. But I would love it if blatant SEO was filtered out of my results.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 month ago

Part of it might be how Google trained everyone to use natural language queries in their searches.

Instead of “how to fit a dog collar” does

“pet advice” +”dog collar” “guidance for new dog owners”

give you better results?

The idea is to search for a cluster of terms that are likely to be on the page you want to find, but aren’t hyper-focused like SEO pages.

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[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 month ago

True, I think I probably just skip over those results and don't even register them anymore. They definitely happen a lot but it's not something I even remembered when I thought about search results.

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