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The BarefootHealer's avatar

Love your work.๐Ÿค—๐Ÿ™

Am I understanding this right re Google?-

"...the search engine will have a chat-like interface, similar to ChatGPT..."

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Soooo, basically gone is the choice to vet search results for individual applicability in Google? It will decide for me, what matches most, based on its assessment, parameters and whatever programming bias, behind the scenes?

Gone is the random, serendipitous stumble onto the exact information you never knew you were looking for?

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sensing a not-so-subtle censorship in moving to that interface. Most peeps dont go beyond the 1st page of results anyway, but then some of us do...and we like it!๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿคจ

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Rick Huckstep's avatar

Hi and thank you so much, I really appreciate the feedback and kind words.

As for AI search, youโ€™re right in your understanding, although Iโ€™m not so sure itโ€™s as conspiratorial as you might think. Today, in the traditional Google results, the links you see are ranked by opaque algorithms that are influenced by advertising dollars. Thatโ€™s a form of censorship where Google is decided what youโ€™re going to see, and thatโ€™s how it worked for ages. In the new approach, the AI will find the top 2 or 3 or 4 articles that Google has decided best answer your query, the AI will read and summarise the articles and then spit out a concise answer, giving the appearance of a definitive answer, when it is actually only as good as the source articles Google chose to read.

Sadly, thereโ€™s not much randomness in the first page of a Google search result and I suspect there wont be in any new model.

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