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m000 ◴[] 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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iLoveOncall ◴[] No.44479259[source]
User issue. Every single time this comes up.

People don't know how to search, that's it. Even the HN population.

Every time this gets posted, I ask for one example of thing you tried to find and what keywords you used. So I'm giving you the same offer, give me for one thing you couldn't find easily on Google and the keywords you used, and I'll show you Google search is just fine.

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mittensc ◴[] No.44479341[source]
Allright, had this recently since i keep forgetting luks commands.

How do you set up an encrypted file on linux that can be mounted and accessed same as a hard drive.

(note: luks, a few commands)

You will see a nonsensical ai summarization, lots of videos and junk websites being promoted then you'll likely find a few blogs with the actual commands needed. Nowhere is there a link to a manual for luks or similar.

This in the past had the no-ad straightforward blogs as first links, then some man pages, then other unrelated things for the same searches that i do now and get garbage.

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nosianu ◴[] No.44479534[source]
I asked Google that exact question, and I got an AI summary that looks alright? Please verify if those steps make sense, I pasted them into a text service, it's too much for an HN comment: https://justpaste.it/63eiz

It shoed 25 or so URLs as the source.

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multjoy ◴[] No.44479633[source]
That wasn't the question. The complaint is the poster can't find anything on Google because the results are now so poor, and your response is "but here's some AI generated slop, which may or may not make any sense."
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1. nosianu ◴[] No.44481292[source]
That was exactly the question???

That "AI generated slop" IS Google's main response now. I posted it so that someone might have a look to see if/how correct it actually is, your response, that does not deign to even look, is less than helpful - if you want to complain about Google not being useful, how about your own response?

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2. multjoy ◴[] No.44483241[source]
A human didn't write it, I'm not reading it.
3. mittensc ◴[] No.44520281[source]
> I posted it so that someone might have a look to see if/how correct it actually is

If you can't trust that the AI generated snippet is correct, why would you share it?