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It’s a very complicated compression algorithm.
Better search results than google though.
EDIT: DO NOT LOOK AT THE CHAT. LOOK AT THE SOURCE LINKS THEY GIVE YOU.
Unless it's a handful of official pages or discussion forums... google is practically unusable for me now. It absolutely exploded once chatgpt came to the scene and SEO has gotten so perfected that slop is almost all the results you get.
I wish we had some kind of downvote or report system to remove all the slop, but the more clicks the more revenue from referrals... better to make people click more.
Almost all recipe sites now give me "We see you're using an adblocker!" until I turn on reader mode on my phone now too. Pretty soon that will be appropriately blocked and I guess i'll go back to cook books or something?
Because they intentionally broke the search engines in order to make LLMs look better.
Search engines used to produce much more useful results than LLMs ever will (even excluding the ones they make up), before google and microsoft started pushing this garbage.
Nahh, even before LLMs became big, search results were becoming worse and worse because of all the SEO-spam.
Now you can generate coherent-sounding articles using LLMs, making the amount of trash even bigger.
Google making their search worse would be dumb, since all these LLMs also rely on it to some degree.