I often find my self rewording and rewording the question to get to what may be a possible answer. Is that part of the plan to keep me engaged? Why though?

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website
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    17 hours ago

    There was a time in the early 2000s when good old Google search was so good, it got you your results in record time. One query and a couple of clicks. And then they realized they could sell more ads if your search took just a couple of queries longer. Every query was a chance to sell more ads. And the results got worse.

    Personally, I don’t use a search engine that spits out so-called AI results. I manage the old-fashioned way because I’m old. But the principle to give you shittier results to get you to rephrase your search and thus multiply ad sale opportunities surely applies here as well.