Are AI language models making search engines unusable for you too?

When I queried `What is the best way to crack eggs?`, my top result was a YT video with a image preview https://youtu.be/06zVBOvH_i0?t=113. So, seems like an OK result to me.

Are you sure your browser doesn't have some sort of weird extension installed that is overwriting the results, etc? Sometimes, I have seen malware installed on people's computers that hijack results.

> When I query things in my own domain of knowledge, many of the responses to the questions are outright wrong

That's the Fake Internet. Information pollution will continue flooding the web, that will cause "islands of trust", with highly curated/moderated content.

Classic search engines like Goggle will become irrelevant. People will be able to "build" their own search engines, not just the queries. Actually they won't need queries, search will be predicted and automated to user actions. Full trust.

I'm developing one of those islands with collective curation.

It’s very subjective, but I feel this too. It’s like in adding ML, search has sacrificed precision.

For example, adding ‘-‘ no longer seems to work for excluding terms. Yesterday I searched for “digital agency” and then “digital agency -marketing”. The latter had 3x more results than the former.

Google can be great when I don’t quite know the right term for what I’m looking for, but often when I need something very specific I get nowhere.

I feel that, I find that when I want the answer to something I add "reddit" to the end of the question or query. I dont use a lot of reddit but I have found that usually you get much better / non-paid answers on there. So much of todays internet are just advertising in disguise. Usually when it comes to questions or comparisons with products, at least with reddit its more likely to be akin to a customer review than some random article that who knows who paid them to tell you x is better than y.

how do you know they are GPTX and not something like Mechanical Turk, or a non-ML algorithm which takes random stuff and rephrases it?

PageRank is based on conectivity so the gibberish content needs to be linked to by other highly ranked content to become an issue.

This has been going on for long before the newer fancy language models. And it still is mostly simple shit, like crappy scraped content off of other sites (like all the product comparison sites).