Agreed, but it’s nice to have tools to get around bad design choices.

Edit: And in this case reader mode didn’t even fix it. Since you can’t see any of the examples.

Reader mode to the rescue!

Yeah, but imagine if the ai results were all you got instead of those in addition to search results.

Microsoft says that this feature is basically a replacement for physical workplace check-in peripherals, it reduces the need to manually update your status

Considering how much I have to manually fix my regular teams status, I have doubts as to how effective this will be.

The emerald ash borer is a great example of the damage invasive species can cause.

They’re so desperate they’re putting it in the worst places. I’ve seen it replace the normal search bar on one website, and on another you would just randomly get an AI answer instead of regular search results about half the time.

Third time for a lot of them.

Is that a forecast or fanfic?

The $30k leaf sticker price seems fair for this.

Oil changes, spark plugs, coolant, transmission fluid, and belts are all things I’ve had to maintain for my partner’s car in the past few years that my EV doesn’t need.

I would have believed this car was a Kia without a second thought if I saw it on the road with that badge. That’s not a compliment for either company, unfortunately.

When the loss of a queen wasp triggers a power struggle and social turmoil, colonies can survive the upheaval thanks to helpful wasps that pick up the slack, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Still not entirely sure.

Wrong post?

That’s what I was referring to by novel length pages. Feels like those predate the recent LLM stuff though.

Does axios not know what paragraphs are?

I tried giving minimal information and still got similar results.

When I think about what got worse about the internet, it’s mostly the life stories before recipes, the novel length pages to maybe answer a simple question, and pretty much anything else related to SEO.

An example of number 4, there’s a poster I’ve seen on reddit that’s posting very relevant content, but then every post ends with “@xxxxxxxx on all socials”. It just takes the whole thing from content I might want to engage with to the exact opposite.

Search used to be so good. I had an old Honda civic that suddenly wouldn’t start. It wasn’t the starter, alternator, or battery. I managed to find a forum post with my exact issue, which was that a small rubber piece on the clutch pressed a button to “tell” the starter it was okay to start. Twenty minutes later I had zip tied a piece of plastic into place and had a working car again.

If I tried to diagnose that same issue today, it’d be dozens of SEO garbage slop sites without any actual useful information.

Wasn’t that Amazon and their “just walk out” grocery store system?

I tried it once at the start of covid. My food finally got to me lukewarm ninety minutes after I ordered it. I’m sure the restaurants and drivers have improved since then, but I just can’t justify paying almost double for my food.