@tricotfeelya yes, my mistake, Google has no say in what Google’s algorithms show you from Google’s index when you google for something on Google’s servers
@thomasfuchs@tricotfeelya Conflating everything doesn't help. The problem here is that Google gives you excerpts of sometimes unreliable sources as results. And has done so for a very long time.
@thomasfuchs Not to mention the cognitive dissonance between advertising environmentally responsible decision-making with their search tools on the one hand, and on the other burning through enough electricity and fresh water to run Argentina for a year to prop up their artificial idiot.
@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.
@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.
@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.
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