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  • ugo@feddit.ittoTechnology@lemmy.world•DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold outEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I do a lot of searching, both for my day job and for personal use.

    Search engines are shit nowadays. The first page of results is consistently either a list of copy pasted llm-generated nonsense, or like reddit posts from 4-5 years ago.

    I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that they have gotten measurably worse even just looking back, say, 18 months. To the point they are barely usable nowadays.

    It seems hard to believe that this wasn’t on purpose in order to peddle their stupid llm chatbot, when it happened so consistently at the same time.

    Not saying search engines weren’t getting worse before, but it was cranked up to insane levels recently.