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‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Absolute crap is an exaggeration. I went back and checked my history and almost all of my search results were accurate and I got my answer within the first page. I don't wanna be that guy but maybe you're doing it wrong. I'd love an example of an "absolute crap" result.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I'm a technical search engine user since AltaVista. That all search engine results declined in quality to become near-useless has been covered in multiple articles (e.g. HN). Reasons are SEO, counter-SEO and increasingly targeting mass users. I'm wondering about your use cases since you're not seeing it.

EDIT: useful hints https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36822880

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An easy example is to search for a product comparison. "Best ___ for 2023". Those have way too much SEO and most are barely one person's rambling opinions, possibly made with AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It is nearly impossible to find good product comparisons these days. Nearly all of them are generated off of Amazon reviews, which are terribly unreliable. I used to just append Reddit to the end of my search but now that isn’t much of an option anymore either..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh I never said I don't see it. I also mentioned it. But it's not absolute crap is what I meant.