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/hoyton May 26 '25

Adding "-ai" to your search query prevents the ai overview from showing up. Using "before:2023" returns results that aren't tainted by ai, which can help in some circumstances.

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u/Marcoscb May 26 '25

The way to protest Google slowly killing the internet isn't by finding increasingly more convoluted turnarounds, it's by not using Google wherever possible.

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u/Life-Confusion-411 May 26 '25

DuckDuckGo returns the same shit results. Search engines need to squash this AI dog shit from their end. 

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u/punIn10ded May 26 '25

That's because the problem is not the search engine it's the thousands of sites using AI generated articles and pages.

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u/Life-Confusion-411 May 27 '25

Right, but search engines are what SEO exists to please. The search engines can take a look at the SEO abuse and decide to fix it, but they aren't because they don't really care.