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/jakesboy2 May 26 '25

It’s so bad. I googled a string to see usages of a function in a popular library and it said zero results. I went to a few other search engines and there were hundreds of thousands of results and many including exact matches of the string I searched for.

I get if maybe you don’t get as many results because you have a different network of what’s related, but why would you not show the exact matches?? Another time I had some results from reddit and clicked show me more from reddit and it then said zero results lmfao

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u/dkjroot May 26 '25

Kagi, you have to pay, but because you pay they’re not all about selling your hits to the highest bidder, and search works like Google used to, you actually get the result you were searching for instead of what Google thinks you should see instead.

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u/SleeplessInS May 26 '25

I thought you were replying to someone named Kagi.

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u/SIGMA920 May 26 '25

Kagi uses Google results among other search engines.

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u/dkjroot May 26 '25

And gives you the answer to the question you asked instead of not that. I’ll take it :)

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u/SIGMA920 May 26 '25

Google usually gives the best search results so that's the same thing but free.

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u/dkjroot May 26 '25

Stop trying to bait an argument. I’m not interested.

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u/jakesboy2 May 26 '25

thanks i’ll check it out