There is endogeneity between the results and the product. Sites have been gaming SEO for so long that some terms have become their own recursive universe of ad-based search promoting ad-monetized content.
Long-winded recipe pages are the canonical example, but last week I was just looking for info about a place I'd be traveling too, and had to scroll through pages of useless fluff to just get the info I was looking for.
It was surprising to realize how much I have stopped using Google entirely since ChatGPT will just tell me the answer or provide additional context, all from the safe, ad-free interface where I already am.
It's my hope that technologies like this will finally kill the ad-driven internet paradigm. More than social media, it really seems to be the root cause of all of the undesirable things we have seen sprouting like weeds across our relationships, media, and political institutions for the past 15 years.
Long-winded recipe pages are the canonical example, but last week I was just looking for info about a place I'd be traveling too, and had to scroll through pages of useless fluff to just get the info I was looking for.
It was surprising to realize how much I have stopped using Google entirely since ChatGPT will just tell me the answer or provide additional context, all from the safe, ad-free interface where I already am.
It's my hope that technologies like this will finally kill the ad-driven internet paradigm. More than social media, it really seems to be the root cause of all of the undesirable things we have seen sprouting like weeds across our relationships, media, and political institutions for the past 15 years.