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Re:What Went Wrong for Yahoo by evanelias on Sunday July 27, 2025 @03:09PM (#44703720)
An increase in searches isn't necessarily a positive thing. Anecdotally, I've increased the number of Google searches I do simply because it now requires multiple attempts to frame my query in a way that provides the results I'm actually looking for!
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Re:What Went Wrong for Yahoo by simfree on Sunday July 27, 2025 @03:33PM (#44703935)
A decrease in search quality has damaged trust with the userbase, making crummy, unreliable data sources like LLMs seem much more viable.
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Re:What Went Wrong for Yahoo by AbstractH24 on Sunday July 27, 2025 @10:41PM (#44706701)
Do you have any evidence to prove this?

Seems logical to me, but then my 71 year old mother with doctorates in both science and literature pulls out her phone and trusts Google AI results without thinking twice.

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Re:What Went Wrong for Yahoo by Melatonic on Sunday July 27, 2025 @08:06PM (#44705890)
But think of all the additional ads that uBlock origin is now hiding you could have seen :-D
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Re:What Went Wrong for Yahoo by evanelias on Monday July 28, 2025 @01:03AM (#44707366)
Believe it or not, some of us don't use ad blockers. The ads are easy to ignore anyway when they're as irrelevant as the bad search results!
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