6 March 2024

Google's big problem

Reposted Google has turned into utter garbage, just straight useless trash by @emilygorcenski@indieweb.social.

Search for thunder road lyrics Initial heading is right: thunder road, song by bruce springsteen and the e street band But the lyrics are completely wrong, it’s a long rambling piece of unknown provenance that might have come from ai?

Predictably, as Google continues to integrate LLM-generated content into their search results, they continue to erode their own credibility.

This is less of a problem when you're just linking ot third party results. Because Google, despite their best efforts to rank results according to credibility (ironic, I know), clearly can't verify everything on third party properties.

When you try to make the search the final stop, however, even silly mistakes like these become mission critical. Because without credibility your product is worthless.