Obviously google was basically already unusable over the past five years but this is... this is something else. Any subject you want to look up will have the first three pages entirely comprised of procedurally generated fake blogs and websites. And there's nothing there. Just scraped text from articles mashed together with varying amounts of hallucinations on top. Not even selling a product, just to harvest ad revenue.

What's maybe even worse is the steady degradation of image searches too. Joe Everyman generates some slop, the image's metadata tags include a historical artist's name. Some one on pinterest pins it while trawling the web. Now there are fifty gooey generated sludge images when you look up the historical painter.

And its not just artists. Historical figures, animals too. Look up 'baby peacock' if you want a clear example of it.

It's a pretty funny bit google, I hope it keeps going.

  • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    completely changing web design would've been cool before smartphones, you can still see the legacy of 800x600 everywhere but if they did it now it would just be shit.

    your idea is a little interesting but people would just click on the top left and that kind of movie UI goes wrong real fast for actual use.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Maybe. But if I had an abundance of free time and/or some infinite cash spigot, I'd give it a shot regardless.

      If nothing else, I think the novelty of a spacial search over a linear search would get people's attention and give the platform more engagement than the Bing approach of being just like Google but pushier.