I think most people misunderstand that the search engines are not content.
Internet was always full of spam. Google was able to work around that. Since for some years Internet became dead because Google is not able to keep up.
Internet was dogshit. Now it is just AI dogshit. Google was quite good, but now it is not.
In a few years we will not use Google search, we will ask chatbots for answers. There will be no "link archive", or nobody will be interested at all in looking at them.
Chatbots will be worshiped. Why going to BBC, if chatbot will always 'know better'.
Google will not invest into Google search, as this "program" will die. Killed of.
Journalists will remain. BBC will continue writing stories, which will be created only to feed chat bot monsters.
That's it. Google is loosing the ground here. It is no longer "the gateway to the Internet." There has always been dog shit, it's just there will now be much more dog shit than ever. Indexing dog shit is not working anymore. There is still Internet out there with useful information, it's just you cannot access it by searching. Are we back to the era of curated sources, encyclopedias and web rings?
I'm already back to it, by following the blogs I like and by bookmarking every interesting sources I come across, as it's unlikely to get back to it via googling. I also more diligent with taking notes, and building a personal knowledge base due to the rate of information disappearing, especially recommendations.
> Are we back to the era of curated sources, encyclopedias and web rings?
maybe even further. I subscribed to the physical, printed and delivered, Wall St. journal a few weeks ago, i really really like it. It has a first page and a last page, i can read it and be done. There's no infinite scroll. I also am subscribed (by chance more or less) to a physical magazine that arrives monthly. I really enjoy it too, the magazine isn't an answer to a question I asked so I always run across something unexpected/new there. Also, like the newspaper, it has a last page and there's no engagement bait because it's Read Only.
Internet was always full of spam. Google was able to work around that. Since for some years Internet became dead because Google is not able to keep up.
Internet was dogshit. Now it is just AI dogshit. Google was quite good, but now it is not.
In a few years we will not use Google search, we will ask chatbots for answers. There will be no "link archive", or nobody will be interested at all in looking at them.
Chatbots will be worshiped. Why going to BBC, if chatbot will always 'know better'.
Google will not invest into Google search, as this "program" will die. Killed of.
Journalists will remain. BBC will continue writing stories, which will be created only to feed chat bot monsters.