Google search has gotten so much worse in the last couple of years. It used to be that I would be able to go through a few pages of results and be able to find what I wanted. Now, after about the first page they become totally unrelated to the search or are just auto-generated garbage. If what you want isn’t on either Wikipedia or Reddit, there’s a good chance you won’t find it.
As for the AI summary, it’s total garbage masquerading as valid information. Three times in the week, I ran into cases where it stated something and confidently linked to sources, but the sources actually proved that it had misunderstood and was totally wrong.
I lost all confidence when I used it to convert a binary number like 10010110 to decimal (a task which it had been able to do for years), only for it to correctly list the steps it was doing in the process and then coming out with a result of “2”. You probably don’t even need to know anything about how binary works to realize that’s completely wrong.
Some people may think that the days of SEO were bad because sites would put their thumb on the scale to get their site prioritized, but at least the sites were there and contained valid information. Now, they just aren’t there, and we have to try to ignore the incorrect information being pushed at us at the top of the results in a bastardized form of “Are you feeling lucky?”
I’m watching it on delay right now, and they just came in. The athletes got a great cheer, but that quickly switched to boos when they showed him. It was perfectly done.
Oh, that. If you read the article, you’ll see that the “toxic waste” was really just used water from the deluge system. Think of it like rinsing off your car and the runoff getting into a river. A good chunk of the water was collected too, so the actual discharge was much less. On top of that, it was later clarified that SpaceX could continue the operations while the permit process was sorted out, which happened a few months after that article IIRC. It was basically a nothingburger that a few commentators tried to blow up.
I’m gonna need a source for that. I follow SpaceX fairly closely (as a fan of the engineering, not Musk), and I can’t think of where this could possibly be happening, even through a wild misunderstanding of a situation.
What jumped out at me (called out twice in dedicated boxes):
By default, users are opted out of work location detection. Users are prompted to provide consent for automatic location detection in the Teams desktop client on Windows or macOS. It is not possible for admins to consent on users' behalf.
This just doesn’t seem like as big of a deal as some are making it sound.
Google search has gotten so much worse in the last couple of years. It used to be that I would be able to go through a few pages of results and be able to find what I wanted. Now, after about the first page they become totally unrelated to the search or are just auto-generated garbage. If what you want isn’t on either Wikipedia or Reddit, there’s a good chance you won’t find it.
As for the AI summary, it’s total garbage masquerading as valid information. Three times in the week, I ran into cases where it stated something and confidently linked to sources, but the sources actually proved that it had misunderstood and was totally wrong.
I lost all confidence when I used it to convert a binary number like 10010110 to decimal (a task which it had been able to do for years), only for it to correctly list the steps it was doing in the process and then coming out with a result of “2”. You probably don’t even need to know anything about how binary works to realize that’s completely wrong.
Some people may think that the days of SEO were bad because sites would put their thumb on the scale to get their site prioritized, but at least the sites were there and contained valid information. Now, they just aren’t there, and we have to try to ignore the incorrect information being pushed at us at the top of the results in a bastardized form of “Are you feeling lucky?”