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Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search
The decline in Google's search result quality? Regular users noticed the quality crisis in 2024. I hope Google corrects path in 2025!
Because they have an unpaid workforce called “moderators” who agree to work for free in exchange of the ability to push their personal worldviews and arbitrarily ban comments that does not align with their ideologies. Even if you’ve decided to ignore every ad displayed by Google, having to scroll down and having to make an intentional effort to identify actual organic results increases your cognitive load. Google scraped what content creators spent years creating and included it in their dataset to power their multi-modal large language model named Gemini.
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