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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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[–] detren@sh.itjust.works 58 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Even without the AI overview there’s so many AI written articles in search results that it’s hard to get through the noise. Limiting search to pre 2022 only does so much when you want information on something recent.

I don’t miss the old Google, I miss the old Internet :(

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

theres entire AI generated websites that are just filled with popular key words and bullshit to put it at the top of the search results.

SEO is as bad as AI when it comes to finding shit on the internet.

I miss the old internet too, before we even had search engines.. when the only way to find a webpage was a webring, or the internet yellow pages.. which was just a directory of all known urls at the time.

[–] bruh@nord.pub 1 points 59 minutes ago

people don't even bookmark anymore sadly :(