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The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

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451 points imartin2k | 3 comments | 06 Jul 25 06:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.775s | source
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m000 ◴[06 Jul 25 07:36 UTC] No.44478629[source]▶
I mostly agree with TFA, with one glaring exception: The quality of Google search results has regressed so badly in the past years (played by SEO experts), that AI was actually a welcome improvement.
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tossandthrow ◴[06 Jul 25 07:49 UTC] No.44478684[source]▶
I think it was just Google that got bad.

I use Kagi who returns excellent results, also when I need non AI verbatim queries.

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1. otabdeveloper4 ◴[06 Jul 25 07:58 UTC] No.44478716[source]▶
It didn't get bad for no reason. It needs to be bad for ads to continue to be profitable.

Displaying what you searched for immediately is cannibalizing that market.

I'm guessing ads in AI results is the logical next step.

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2. sillyfluke ◴[06 Jul 25 10:43 UTC] No.44479514[source]▶
Yes, that's the next logical step. The only silverlining is Google currently has less of a moat than last time in the technology in question, so some upstart could always be on their heels in a Kagi-esque way.
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3. beefnugs ◴[07 Jul 25 21:02 UTC] No.44494636[source]▶
If ads is the next step then AI could never be used for coding. And if you mean in the browser or chat only... then people will just make a wrapper around the api.