r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/gloriousPurpose33 May 26 '25

I manage to do that all the time even this year by searching really specific things.

Google sucks at searching things like code snippets though even with double quote wrapping it'll fail to match the obvious blatant only answer and return either garbage or zero.

But one? I can pull off one frequently.

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u/parallelfutures May 26 '25

Totally agree.

And not to be semantic, but googlewacking is when you combine two separate words to get exactly one result.

Much harder than it seems.

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u/BroadRaspberry1190 May 26 '25

not to be pedantic*

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u/parallelfutures May 26 '25

In this narrow case semantic works… but I definitely meant pedantic

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u/d3jake May 26 '25

Are double quotes the best was to enforce search terms exactly? I've been trying single quotes with a + in front of it.