[fvold]

I don't know about the market at large, but I do not want that. I want the a search engine to just have a huge database of websites, and look up stuff in that database based on my query, spitting out a link to the page that matches best, then the one that matches second best etc etc.

Using ML to determine the order of matches is absolutely fine, but to "digest" the internet and cook up an answer to what I'm looking for without proper sourcing? I do not want that. I don't want to try and guess what biases the language model might have. It's way easier for me to gauge the bias of another human, and for that, I need to be sent to a page a human has written.

(Of course, I realize that the "blog written by a bot" genre of writing is also becoming more convincing, making this whole thing harder...)

[dumpsterlid]

Yah I would love someone to convince me this isn't like touchscreen interfaces becoming prevalent in cars over physical control surfaces. It is sold as technological advancement that is good for everyone but in reality it is just corporations figuring out how to make something worse for cheaper and force consumers into it.

I already feel like google search sucks. It is partially googles fault partially the internets fault. The best source of information was and will always be forums full of knowledgable people having genuine conversations and everybody moved to discord because.... because... om I dont know and besides google doesnt get paid to elevate tiny ass forum websites in the search results.