sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoRemembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up111cross-posted to: longreads@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up111external-linkRemembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”arstechnica.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square33linkfedilinkcross-posted to: longreads@sh.itjust.works
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoBasically, it was as shit then as Google is currently. Actually, it was still slightly better; at least they acknowledged operator signs in the search (+, -, putting phrases in quotes, etc). Google doesn’t even do that anymore.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoI think it was better solely for the fact that you wouldn’t get ads in your search results
minus-squaredoenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 days agoPlus zero LLM slop everywhere.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agoWell yeah, but that’s a recent development
Basically, it was as shit then as Google is currently. Actually, it was still slightly better; at least they acknowledged operator signs in the search (+, -, putting phrases in quotes, etc). Google doesn’t even do that anymore.
I think it was better solely for the fact that you wouldn’t get ads in your search results
Plus zero LLM slop everywhere.
Well yeah, but that’s a recent development