@thomasfuchs Call me old fashioned, but I don't want a machine that answers question, I want a search engine that leads me to interesting websites. Something that doesn't try to figure out what I might need and just gives me something that fits the search pattern I enter.
@thomasfuchs Sooooo Kenya, which is in Africa, starts with the K sound, and begins with the letter K, but there are no countries that start with the letter K in Africa? Do I have that right? This is going to keep me up all night.
@datarama Google has a human-curated search index (look up the pagerank algorithm). They just chose to also add bullshit AI crap, so people don’t leave their site and see more ads.
@thomasfuchs I think I misunderstood you; sorry. I agree that the "featured snippet" is an awful idea, and I think it'd be one no matter whether it was pulled out of the highest-ranked page using a classic algorithm or a neural net - precisely because it's designed to dissuade people from clicking the source and leaving Google. "Bard" and "Search Generative Experience" are even worse and I wouldn't use them even if I got paid for it.
@thomasfuchs Only really, really dumb people think this is Google. It's returning an AI generated response to the human question Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with the letter "k"? Put the phrase in quotes and you get Kenya.
@thomasfuchs When you question #Bard and it #Mansplains about it's #MassiveData, remember this graphic which, by the way, it removes and refuses to answer questions about.
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