The Death Knell of Digital Search

Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by apercu on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:02AM (#50442237)

I remember in around 2011 realizing that ~85% of the first page of Google search results was ads. I haven’t used Google search much in the last 5 years, mostly due to this but also because of how they rewarded blog spam.

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Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by esseph on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:09AM (#50442327)

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Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by apercu on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:48AM (#50442884)

Maybe Google search is like an LLM - if you’re asking for a code reference it works, but if you’re asking for something else (music theory?) it just doesn’t?

Point is maybe it depends on topic maybe?

These days I use a couple different search sources both paid and free and it’s been that way for a couple years.

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Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by esseph on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:21PM (#50443328)

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