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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)

submitted 7 months ago by ugjka@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Remember when you could type a vague plot of a film you'd heard about into Google and it'd be the first result?

Nah doesn't work anymore

Saw a trailer for a french film so I searched "french film 2024 boys live in woods seven years"

Google - 2024 BEST FRENCH FILMS/TOP TEN FRENCH FILMS YOU MUST SEE THIS YEAR/ALL TIME BEST FRENCH MOVIES

Absolute fucking gash

I've not been too impressed with Kagi search, but at least the top result there was "Frères 2024"

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Remember when you could type a vague plot of a film you’d heard about into Google and it’d be the first result?

I honestly don't remember this at all. I remember priding myself on my "google-fu" and how to search it to get what i, or other people, needed. Which usually required understanding the precise language that you would need to use, not something vague. But over the years it's gotten harder and harder, and now I get frustrated with how hard it has become to find something useful. I've had to go back to finding places I trust for information and looking through them.

Although, ironically, I can do what you're talking about with ai now.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I honestly don't remember this at all.

It was absolutely a thing and one of the reasons Google became wildly popular at first

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When?

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

TUESDAY