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The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The next good search engine will unironically be a Microsoft chatbot of some kind

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Takes all of the AI processing power in the world to make Bing a good search engine

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You mean current Bing co-pilot?

Bing has gotten so much worse in the last 5 years, it’s not even better than google anymore

Search results aside, why can I no longer copy the result from Bing’s calculator anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I only ever knew Bing as being good for porn. Maybe a porn aficionado can confirm if it still is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah Bing used to be lagging behind Google on censorship so you could find shit that Google wanted to hide once. Now, it all sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Their video pages gives way fewer results than before

Just did a test searching “porn” and scrolled for 3 seconds before reaching the end of the results

If I do a search though I can get the same 3 results for 20 pages before finding a new one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol, Copilot is easily the dumbest AI assistant. It's completely useless, it just spews bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It just parses the first few results

It’s the same as the search engine