Off-Topic • [Industry] Search Engines are the bane of the Internet. [Small Rant, V1, release 2].

Cumlatively over the past year I have taken to note that the majority of online searches for information from the main cast of "providers" has gone from 'hmm that was a disappointing set of results' to 'I should find the email or telephone of a professional to directly ask this question of instead'. That is not a joke by any means; I had a plumbing issue and after 20 minutes of online searching for the reward of failure, I instead called a local contractor who earned my future business by answering and providing detailed information to me for my issue at ZERO cost which conversely is near to the same cost as the search engines offer to be absolute and fair. I see now more than ever that human direct knowledge triumphs any thing I can read or search for online.

Despite digesting that, I went back in looking for information and without exageration over the past 2 months the online searches have given a yield of results that frankly are embarassing even to myself as an IT professional. The current tally of results across all of the major engines are: IMAGE, IMAGE, IMAGE, unrelated IMAGE, link to TIkTok, and SALE, SALE, SALE. I should not forget to mention that the 1st results are from the latest unfettered AI bot suggestions, a persistent login to our service prompt, or suggestions about a topic that are far from even a cursory or vague misunderstanding of the search term that was input.

Am I in a /dev/null corner of the internet? Is anyone else seeing this as well?

Statistics: Posted by donald — 2024-09-27 23:55 — Replies 0 — Views 20

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