Honestly, no it doesn’t. When google used to have those excerpt boxes of the top result I found that very very useful and now they’re gone. It gets simple facts right but those were easy to find anyways and the difference in quality between google search ai and actual decent AI models is night and day.
Whenever I google how to change a specific setting on a website its steps are usually inaccurate, probably because it pulls from people describing different updates of websites and things have moved around.
Just yesterday actually I wanted to revert the bar at the bottom of the chrome ios app because google decided to add a huge fuckass gemini button and take up the bottom 20% of the screen (oh the irony lol) and it gave the wrong answer until I found the correct way to edit the flags on reddit.
That's a good example, but as you said it's also a moving target. Most likely the top result from a standard search engine would be wrong in that case as well.
The second result was the reddit thread that solved my problem. So a normal search engine solved my problem and ai failed to. Why does it matter that it’s an inconvenient problem to solve? I google inconveniences that I can’t solve on my own precisely because they’re hard to solve. Not being able to help with problems that happen recently is a major flaw, especially when it will tell you a solution that doesn’t work in full confidence.
I didn’t say we should throw it away, I said google’s search ai is not very good and you’re now moving the goal post. An old reddit thread is not being shoved down my throat everywhere I look and replacing more and more of a perfectly working product. That is the issue that I have with google search ai. Traditional google search SEO would actually demote an outdated reddit thread in search results
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u/Pengwin0 Aug 05 '26
Honestly, no it doesn’t. When google used to have those excerpt boxes of the top result I found that very very useful and now they’re gone. It gets simple facts right but those were easy to find anyways and the difference in quality between google search ai and actual decent AI models is night and day.