Disclaimer: this video came out a week before ChatGPT, that's why it's not mentioned 😅The Google Search search engine is dying. The giant that shaped the in...

Esp. relevant amidst the reddit blackout, and how it’s affecting Google Search quality as well.

  • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
    51·
    2 years ago

    Hot take: The old way of searching is outdated.

    Bing Chat is rough, but it’s the future. You ask it a question - it uses a modified ChatGPT to generate an answer and cites its sources.

    About 60% of the time, it’s right. About 40% of the time it’s wrong. But either way, it cites its sources using links that it found during that search. You can click those sources and see responses from humans, who generally have the correct answer.

    I rarely use Google now. Bing Chat is always my first stop for any kind of question or general knowledge query. Give it 5 years - 10 at most - and that’ll be the only way to use a search engine. The tech isn’t going anywhere, and it’s only getting better.

    • Pegatron@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      This is almost a worst case scenario to me. There was a time when I could search the internet and find long form articles written by experts in the field, or at least by knowledgeable people answering the question that I had and often giving me a deep dive. These days I can search the title of an article I know exists and it will still be buried beneath pages of SEO driven AI generated garbage. I get the feeling that many of these sites and writers shut down simply because there was no reason to generate content that would be buried.

      • CynAq@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        I also want to be able to search anonymously instead of saving my entire search history on a very easily identifiable account on a massive corporations servers.

      • Khalic@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Ikr, nightmare scenario… but that’s just a market niche that someone will eventually fill

    • discodoubloon@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      You’re right. I’m primarily using this, discord, and ChatGPT as my main tools for browsing/troubleshooting/interacting.

      One thing that works really well with GPT is that sometimes it will tell you that you are framing the problem incorrectly and make a lateral move to a different system that still solves the problem.

      I was about to spend a lot of time and energy setting up a server and it told me of a way to do what I was looking for through Google Drive instead.

      It’s almost as good as talking to a real expert.

    • electroskunk@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      If I have to check a list of sources to make sure what ChatGPT spat out was accurate, why don’t I just skip the middleman and make that determination with my own brain? That’s what I don’t get. Is that a skill that’s being lost now or something?

      • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        I mean, I use it a lot for programming. I try the solution given and if it doesn’t work/breaks then I go double-check the sources to see what they actually said.

        But generally it’s “good enough” the first time around, or it gives me an alternate way of thinking about the problem that I didn’t consider.