942
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
(tech.slashdot.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It seems there is an arms race between search engines and content creators. The latter come up with those pages that will tell you the life history of the writer and their dogs, and 20 ads, five popups, subscription offers, allow the site to access your location and send updates questions and 'read more's later you might find out the thing you need. All this to have more ads and rank higher in various searches. 10 minutes ago I wanted to find out what the hell a float needle is. I couldn't. ChatGPT gave me the answer I needed in two questions.
I feel the future will be personal chat assistants, but that will also start spitting out ads in the future unless a foss version is used.
I'd really love if I could download the weight files and do the chat locally on my computer