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Stop using generative AI as a search engine (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You should see what searching was like on AltaVista. You'd have to scroll past dozens of posts of random numbers and letters to find anything legible. Click through and your computer would emit a cacophony of bell sounds and pour out screens of random nonsense and then freeze permanently. You had to rely on links and web-rings to navigate with any degree of success.

And that in itself was a massive improvement on what was available before.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah I remember the AltaVista, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, and Dogpile days. I agree searxh has come a long way. I'm just saying Google used to be better in that old sweet spot.