https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780
Vicious Self-Degradation
you Google
Quora spots query and id's as frequent
Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer
ChatGPT hallucinates
Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer
ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer
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Growing pains. There were 3 years where search engines mainly showed you pages of word clouds owned by a website that nobody ever used for any reason. Literally it was all the same website and Google didn't blacklist it. It was bizarre.
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omg I love pintrest so much. Google pushes them so hard that they actually end up pushing content they normally derank (diy guns)
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Lmao the best part is i didn't have a pinterest account, so Google images was completely unusable for me.
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The really funny time was when blogs first started gaining traction and the circlejerk of links broke pagerank and elevated shitty blogs to the top spots. GNAA ran a "war against blogs" to grief these bloggers lol.
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You can still see some of those block of text website sometimes in search results
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Yes, page two of Google's results. :P
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Google results are still consistently SEO slop.
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Yeah but these were literally just pages of links related to your search and nothing else.
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Now they machine learning non-sequiters related to your search unless you are very plainly looking to buy a commercial product.
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What do these look like? I can't find them
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