Anyone else experience this?
You run into a niche or weird issue. So you google “how to x”, “y not working on z” or “Error code: 123”; The 1st, 2nd, 3rd page are infected, probably 90% AI slop. Don’t have any luck even with the one blog post that was probably written by a human.
Now I have to go to YouTube. Look for a tutorial, 1st, 2nd, 3rd video all AI. AI voice, AI avatar, bot comments like “😍😍😍”.
Finally I reach a real video from a year or two ago that actually solved my issue. Took 4 hours when normally I could find it in 1 hour tops.
Google/Bing (includes DuckDuckGo) will sometimes not show me the correct results but will instead have the correct results as sources in the ai search assistant
Which is obviously intentional to pressure people to rely on the ai because their regular searches mysteriously fail to deliver the obviously correct results
We’re just going to be forced into it and im pretty sure the battle is already lost and this is the evolution of the search engine, full stop ):