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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
I feel like I'm getting gishgalloped by terrible company decisions.
I was already thinking about Zulip's pivot to AI and the need to build better group chat infrastructure and now it looks like search is getting fucked.
This is a big fucking deal. First, search is essentially a duopoly, with Google taking the lion's share and Bing taking the rest. Duckduckgo? Ecosia? Kagi? Mostly Bing and Google in a trenchcoat, with some smaller indexes tacked on. And Google tends to be the more comprehensive and less spammy one (but your mileage may vary on that).
So if Google kills its index then it fucks with the smaller providers too, they're basically reliant on Bing (who could very well do the same rug-pull).
And most users doesn't even use these alternative search engines. They will keep using Google, despite the hallucinations, despite the way Google has basically stolen from the entire Internet and is now killing it like a wasp parasite kills its caterpillar, despite the way Google has probably now eaten its own fucking slop, because that's what they're used to, and now my job will be trying to convince people to change their workflows so they can actually find data and not just slop.
Sincerely, fuck you Google.