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Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I…. Don’t really get why they think this is better. Google search was good…. Other companies can copy AI technology anyway. AI is really just predicting words and wasn’t designed for search, but their old algorithm was.

Whyyyyyy

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago

Google hasn't understood the internet for a long time. They created an excellent search algorithm by treating the internet as a single information system that warranted analysis and indexing for convenient traversal.

These days that's not... Something they're interested in anymore. The goal is to collect user data for targeting advertising and resale. Their core product is still the search bar, sure, but that's just a hook to reel you in. They'll attach whatever buzzword to it it takes to keep it in the zeitgeist. "Ai" is hot right now so that's the buzzword.

I don't get the impression technical competency is something Google values anymore...

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

My theory is that Google wants to move towards vector symbolic representations for pages in search rather than page caching. It would make index storage and retrival orders of magnitude cheaper for them if they can design a scheme that works well.