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A web search tip to avoid AI generated SEO junk (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This beats using "reddit" because that site has also become full of ai generated and bot spam/product astroturfing

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Just done 4 searches and got the exact same results regardless of "before:2023"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, tried it when this first got mentioned. Doesn’t do squat.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

but i don't use google search

[+] [email protected] -24 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Who exactly this is for. When I'm searching for stuff on the internet I'm searching for information I don't care if it was written by a human or not.

Perhaps it's more useful if you're looking for actual articles but I'm generally looking for manuals or documentation, both of which are perfectly fine to be written by AI as long as they work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

In as little as ten years that may be so but the garbage that AI is producing today is exactly how I describe it. Garbage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I somewhat agree.

I've never really encountered AI spam while searching for something.

I guess generally I know what site is going to have what I need so I just search directly, or include the name of the site in search.

That said, I wouldn't argue that AI spam is as useful as information written and maintained by a human.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Depends on the human. Sometimes you'll find engineering manuals and they look like they've been translated from Korean into English by someone dyslexic and couldn't speak either language.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You've never searched something and when you clicked on something that looked relevant it turns out to be a garbage bin full of basic loosely-related and barely-formatted information not pertaining much to your search?

Though lately when I search for things it's usually something somewhat niche and google just fails to give me the specific topic and instead shows more popular/general things with somewhat similar terms unless I start adding quotes. Date isn't fixing that.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No not really. What sort of things are you searching for?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I didn't exactly write them down, but for the first one I've had it happen a few times and I'm pretty sure once I was looking something up about gardening (probably some specific thing about peppers or tomato) and something looked like a guide but it was just lots of very basic information about a lot of plants on a no-design page with a wall of text (like chopping up real pages and mashing them all together into one that will get a lot of hits).

The second thing has happened more recently with technical stuff, like if I search anything about vertex colors it isn't guaranteed to be relevant. I also searched for something else technical and one of the things popping up was some Korean TV show (drama?) with one of the keywords as its name (in a somewhat odd way).

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The year is 2235, and the warp drive has been invented. I go to search Google for the latest news on the tech but remember this old bit of advice from an old meme that was floating around almost 2 centuries ago I saw once while lurking in the Ancient Memes community. All I find are things taken from fiction. Only about 25% are factually accurate.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This has the bonus side effect of being able to ignore any news that happened since 2023 to gaslight yourself into thinking that we're not all living in a hellscape of a world

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You'd need to go back to pre 2012 for that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Before 2007 gets one well before the 2007 financial collapse.

https://www.britannica.com/money/great-recession

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Little further than that. Further... Keep going until you see fish legs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

No the news from 2024 is an improvement over the news from 2023. Moderately anyway

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the news in 2022 was still pretty hellish. I'm going to go with (before:2013). Some hell still, but a naively optimistic hell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Probably more poverty/starvation but a fraction of the climate change?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

way fewer active genocides and all of them trying to fly under the radar.

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