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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet (www.businessinsider.com)
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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

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[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 73 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That used to be Google, when they were interested in providing quality results and showing ads alongside those results, instead of just.. being an ad company.

Before that, it was Yahoo, when they were interested in providing quality results, and showing ads, instead of just being an ad company.

Before that, it was AltaVista, when they were...

...Ask Jeeves...

We'll see who's next.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget Lycos!

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And HotBot.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And WebCrawler!

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And MetaCrawler!

[–] podperson@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mid late nineties, WC was my favorite. Felt like it had the best results.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I've been hearing Kagi is very good but i don't know if I'm ready to start paying for a search engine. Given the direction things are headed through, it could be worth considering

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Time to bring back web rings lmao

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 2 years ago

web rings

We've come, uh, full circle indeed

[–] HackyHorse3000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Kagi basically did with Smallweb

[–] Jaybob32@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I've switched to perplexity.ai. yes it's AI, but it gives me the answer I was looking for in a short snippet of information. I can then go scour the sources if I want too. It's completely replaced Google for me.