@jon@vivaldi.net Where’s the entry for “Much Much Worse”!!!

@jon@vivaldi.net About the same

@jon I made use of DDG’s AI after I couldn’t quite answer my hard question in the results and it basically came to the same conclusion as me several times. I think its worthwhile to use AI for questions of less importance to save some time. I haven’t noticed any degeneration of ddg’s search results.

@jon@vivaldi.net worse, but it’s indirect: AI has made the generation of SEO spam much more scalable than search engines’ ability to detect it.

@jon@vivaldi.net While I do understand the sentiment, I think the problem with search has been more the ads than anything else

Things like the AI overviews are bad, but search has been more or less powered by AI for a while, it’s really just been this new bout of generative AI where they’re really saying it out loud

But even without that GenAI, search results have been getting significantly worse for a bit now