[Rapzid]

I feel like Google search results have gotten tremendously worse over the past 2 years too. It's almost like you have to use AI search to find anything useful now.

Which of course reduces traffic to sites and thus the incentives to create the content you're looking for in the first place :(

[maltelandwehr]

I actually think the AI Overviews from Google have improved a lot in the last 2 years. They used to be trash. And now they are often good-enough so that I do not even switch to ChatGPT anymore.

The traditional search results suffer a lot because AI and AI content generation have enable a lot of aggressive SEO/spam plays.

[alex43578]

There’s many groups that “win” by making search results worse. It’s an ongoing battle between them, and if someone’s blaming solely Google for it, they’re way oversimplifying.

[calcpocket]

I totally agree with you, this reduces the traffic to sites but also there were lots of website that information wasn't true or correct.

[RuslanL]

Does anyone know which tool can be best used instead of Google for "classic", non-AI googling?

[maltelandwehr]

Pure non-AI googling will not work since many websites now use AI to create content. And so far, no search engine has managed to reliable detect and filter that out.

[ido]

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