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Re:YouTube Oddities by eimrine on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:17AM (#39397307)
> I'd really like to read their writeup where they unironically exalt its virtues

Increased engagement by putting content after search box.

Reduced search box to such the number that 99.7% searches still can accomplish successfully.

Significantly reduced DB load.

New incentive for the AI team to keep pacing its algo towards AI-only search.

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Re:YouTube Oddities by twisteriffic on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:24AM (#39397414)
> New incentive for the AI team to keep pacing its algo towards AI-only search

Please no... Facebook is already doing this in marketplace and it's beyond awful. Like "search for an oscilloscope and get a vibrator" level of awful.

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Re:YouTube Oddities by Suppafly on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:03PM (#39400647)
Considering how popular marketplace is, fb seems to be doing everything possible to reduce the utility of it.
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