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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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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

There's a lot of misguided enthusiasm over taking people out of the loop and somehow making a system that will purely automatically find what we need, there's no such thing. Web rings and directories were how it should be done.

That's fine for interests and hobbies, but if I'm looking for a specific bit of information am I supposed to go diving through a Web ring in hopes I strike it lucky?