With the advent of AI, Google Search has just become a giant advertising billboard
A search request even remotely connected to a sales opportunity just provides a list of their paid advertisers.
its increasingly useless.
i’ve moved to pretty much asking Grok anything i want to find out about: compared to google searching, MUCH faster, more relevant, more useful, more pithy, and more believable ...
Google has been useless for decades. In the early 00’s it was quite useful. I used it to find solutions to technical problems. It’s doing x and y what is the problem? I got some links to click with synopses and after a few minutes I could solve the problem. Now it’s doing x and y what is the problem? You get a bunch of advertisements and a few links to forums that you can sift through for hours and never solve the problem. It’s cheaper and faster to put your old problem in a landfill and buy a cheap new problem from China.