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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by lordnacho on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:48PM (#34536657)
I use search for coding a lot, and lately I've noticed it's hard to find what I'm after. If I'm looking for some small thing like what an sftp command looks like, I don't want an SEO essay about why SSH is great and we should all use encryption. I just want the example line.

This seems to be what ChatGPT can give me. It doesn't always work, but it also doesn't beat around the bush.

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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by aejnsn on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:52PM (#34536739)
100%. I have found it sooo difficult to trace framework/library documentation down that 3-4 years ago was first few results. Something has ruined their algorithm.
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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by _jab on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:00PM (#34536902)
Yup, exactly the same experience here. It feels like there's been a recent wave of SEO-optimized websites that consistently pop up when I google specific errors, but rarely have literally anything of substance.
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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by quantified on Thursday January 26, 2023 @04:08PM (#34538868)
Yet.
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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by Tagbert on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:41PM (#34542557)
Until ChatGPT starts giving you responses crafted from those SEO sites.
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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by red-iron-pine on Friday January 27, 2023 @12:37PM (#34549038)
GPT is probably crafting those sites and like has been for a while now
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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by b212 on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:26AM (#34544218)
That is odd, what exactly were you looking for? In my case Google results are still top notch. Sometimes I search for SO question every X years and I’m always able to find it easily.
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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by lordnacho on Sunday January 29, 2023 @03:01AM (#34565935)
Pretty much any minor thing like what does some syntax look like. I get both SEO essays and StackOverflow copycat sites.
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