Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

  • Penryn_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Google search has been pretty weak for awhile now. I/O spoke a lot of big talk about bring generative AI into search, but from my part of the world it still seems the same.

    • The_Pete@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Ai isn’t going to fix the first page being all ads, that’s a business decision.

      If they wanted to return actual content they could do that without AI.

      • Gabu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        that’s not even close to the issue, though – Google Search fell because of SEO pushing irrelevant auto-generated garbage towards the top.

        • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I think it’s both - the SEO fight as well as the explosion of ads on Page 1. Throw in a dash of average-user search optimization (vs a flatter term-based search) and you’ve got Googles downfall in a nutshell.