[spudlyo]

Franky, good riddance. The websites that had SEO optimized their way to the top of Google's search results for queries like "how to change DNS settings", "best free VPN", or "best wireless earbuds under $300" were generally terrible, and I can't say I'm sad that that creating that kind of "content" is no longer economically viable.

There were large categories of information had become extremely difficult to search for thanks to SEO optimized content farms like these. People switching to Reddit for discovery because of this search index pollution was a direct response to this. To me, LLMs feel like a return to the golden age of AltaVista and Google, where the Internet was a place you could reliably find the information you were looking for.

[m4tthumphrey]

You'll just see it within AI responses instead.

[terminalshort]

I find that the AI surfaces things from actual manuals and data that were once easy to find in Google search before SEO ruined it.

[ssl-3]

Certainly so.

But we aren't there quite yet; that's tomorrow's problem. And I still have things that I need to do today.

[SketchySeaBeast]

Yeah, that's only going to last until the first bad actor.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt...

[marginalia_nu]

It seems very easy to manipulate.

Noticed the other day it now heavily cites and sources my one of my blog post to support the claim that yes, AI makes you boring if you google "Does AI make you boring?"

If you search "Does AI make you interesting?", it drums up other sources to support that contradictory claim as well.

[rurp]

What do you think is going to happen to LLM content after it has replaced the rest of the internet? It sure as hell isn't going to stay relatively unbiased and ad-free. The degradation of Google Search is probably an optimistic comparison.

[tempodox]

Except when they just hallucinate an answer that is plainly wrong.