A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting

Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    theres entire AI generated websites that are just filled with popular key words and bullshit to put it at the top of the search results.

    SEO is as bad as AI when it comes to finding shit on the internet.

    I miss the old internet too, before we even had search engines… when the only way to find a webpage was a webring, or the internet yellow pages… which was just a directory of all known urls at the time.