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‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI (www.theguardian.com)
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Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I remember being taught about search operators in school. Of course they'd take that away, it's such a powerful way to get exactly what you're looking for, no bullshit.

[–] belochka@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I think in older search engines the results were not rated at all, and you could use syntax similar to SQL.

Using them as sort of a Web index. Would be very useful if not for all the bots and SEO sites.

Unfortunately, Google, Yahoo and others gradually reduced that to just a set of keywords.