surprised pikachu
Big tech has failed us after we made them rich.
And who is surprised?
Can we ask the AI to remove/omit the ads?
LLMs can’t even distinguish properly between a fruit with green flesh and red skin vs. green skin and red flesh, and you expect them to distinguish between ads and content?
The ad is the content, from Google’s viewpoint.
My guess is that the ads in question are not the ones that Google wants, but rather LLMO (like SEO cancer, except for LLM results).
But yes, if someone paid Google enough, their ad “magically” becomes content, no disagreement.
Read the article, the ads are part of Google programmes/partnerships with advertisers and are meant to present buyable products that are supposedly relevant to the user’s query.
I read the article. My point is that the ads won’t be just the ones that the article describes, and clearly separated from the content; eventually they’ll become part of the content.
Looks like a separate element that comes after the LLM summary which can be removed by ad blockers. That is, if you’re still using Google search…
That is, if you’re still using Google search…
What’s a viable alternative? Bing seems to be just as rah rah AI as Google, DDG gives me oranges if I search for apples… if there is an actually useful search engine out there that isn’t actively in the process of becoming enshittified, I would absolutely love to know.
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I’m pretty sure that was a metaphor for DDG giving them not what they are looking for. They probably didn’t meant it literary
searxng
I’ve been pretty happy with Kagi (it’s a paid search engine, though).
Who still uses Google in 2024?
[kagi ad here]
Eh who cares? I switched to DDG ages ago.
