Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight ChatGPT

Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by msrenee on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:47AM (#35094895)

Google has gotten way better at interpreting search queries formulated like natural speech. It used to be you had to know what sort of keywords together would get you the results you were interested in. Now I can type in "what is the capital of France" and have a Wikipedia article about Paris pop up, an Encyclopedia Brittanica entry, and World Population Review for the city. That wouldn't have been the case in 2005.

It's become a tool that basically anyone can at least get some information out of. Googling used to be a skill that non-technical people struggled with.

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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by greenie_beans on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:09AM (#35095250)

i feel like it's been half decent at that for at least a decade? that's my typical way to google something dumb like "how do know if my dog sprained or broke?

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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by msrenee on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:57PM (#35105122)

2005 is well over a decade ago and that's very much on the conservative end of when I remember the selection of search terms as being very important and a sort of art form.

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