Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it

Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by BurningFrog on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:39AM (#31423338)

My thought is that the Web has adapted to Search.

When Google started, the web was honest and innocent. People linked to the pages they liked, and Google could crowd source those links and raise up the most popular pages.

Now most of the web is lies meant to confuse search engines. Figuring out what pages are good is no longer a feasible task for software.

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Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by dreamcompiler on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:50AM (#31423510)

> Figuring out what pages are good is no longer a feasible task for software.

Of course it is. It shouldn't be at all difficult to train a large natural language AI model on SEO spam pages. But nobody will do it unless they can figure out a business model that makes it pay.

Or a non-profit organization is formed to do search spidering for the benefit of the whole world, much like Wikipedia or PBS.

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Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by JKCalhoun on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @11:04AM (#31423690)

I don't doubt the narrative as you relay it, but I question how hard this can be for one of the largest corporations with one of the largest engineering pools in the world.

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