Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Super interesting the trick we all thought was a secret, stopped working, and now executives from one of the worlds biggest companies are having trouble as a result lol
This trick used to be common before embedded searches were actually decent. Wikipedia in particular took a long time before their search was even close to “site:wikipedia.org [search term]”. I think the saddest part is that people seemed to forget about it for so long until realizing they could use it for Reddit too. So far the trick seems to work for lemmy if you point it at an arbitrary instance like lemmy.world, the content just isn’t quite there yet.
I think people forgot how things were before apps and the centralization of social media in so few domains.
People forgot web browsers are the app of all apps.
Search will probably come down to you having a personal AI agent that will broker with other AI agents for relevant data. It will likely become a hell scape.
Forget and forget. While some definitely do, you have a lot of people like me who simply are too young to know anything else. Like I’m younger than google and facebook opened to the general public and twitter launched the year I started first grade. So I really don’t have any experience with the Internet before them.
And then you have people younger than me whose parents have owned iphones longer than they have had children. We haven’t forgotten how the internet was, we were simply never there too experience it.