• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    We will see where it all goes. maybe you don’t recall Dogpile? used to be huge as a search engine because it hit every other search engine and compiled the results. But google was giving better results so everyone jumped on that, but now google tries to only give you ad based results when possible, so google has become less useful as an info search engine. ChatGPT actually gives better concrete info when searching a topic, so I find myself not using google now. Bing now has ChatGPT ChatGPT built in so people mat find that more appealing, especially because MS almost forces it on you.

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      1 year ago

      I’m old enough to remember dogpile. I learned about Google from an AOL manual. I so remember that I learned about it in middle school and it wasn’t commonly used until a few years later. And not dominant until I was well into college. People hated it I remember. I was the weirdo who fell in love immediately.

      That’s my point. It’s not about if people will switch from Google. It’s about if news companies can stand the revenue loss for as long as that takes and it’ll take 2 years being extremely absurdly optimistic. Likely it’ll be 5 or more.

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        1 year ago

        Well they were already losing, isn’t that why the change was being made to ad a revenue stream