has anyone else noticed the complete and gradual retardation of search engines across the web?if you google anything (and i mean anything), google will>correct perceived spelling mistakes (even if quotations are used).>omit keywords if it can't find a search result with all of those keywords (prioritizing the delivery of results even when it should return none or very few).>enable safe-search by default (and not tell you that safe search is enabled unless you go out of your way to check the settings).i know that the obvious answer is "search engines are deliberately dumbing down to maximize user engagement", but this shit even happens on websites too.here i am looking for "protoss" models from starcraft on sketchfab, but i keep getting results for 3D models of atoms because it's tying in "protoss" with "proton"sketchfab is a business and they're losing potential money by slowing me down with fluff.
they haven't for yearsgoogle advanced search is closer to old google but still dumbed down
>>109656619what i'm mainly curious about is that having AI-powered search engines that fuck around with user input probably take a significantly larger amount of processing power and energy compared to something that just searches for a strict word-for-word matching. at the very least, an exact search option could be a lucrative paygated feature for a company like google/bing/yahoo
>>109656594A lot of it is because of the gamification of the employment process.Search is a very "transparent" computer Operation i.e problems show up immediately and consistently.Software in general is getting worse but it'll disproportionately show up in search.
Sketfab is full of 3d slope, pre-made garbage that you consume and throw away.
>>109656766it's worse than that. their "free" stuff is slop, but anytime you find a high-quality model, it's paygated. and you can't buy anything paygated on sketchfab because they partnered with EpicGamesStore and all of their purchases happen through Epic's store, BUT most of the paywalled content on sketchfab has not made it over there, so there's HD models of Sins Of The Prophets ships taunting me.at this point, i'm just going to start hiring modelers on vgen but the amount of modelers that aren't just vtuber goonlords is quite small. found a generalist on there but they want extra fees here and there for redistribution rights and rigging. ugh.>>109656742feel like we're experiencing a one-three punch where our most recent population of workers fell for the "white collar" techbro meme of making $150K at a company, right when those companies now have automated slop machines subsidized by the government AND an influx of jeets because our current government is very welcoming to H1B visas at the moment.
>>109656676>what i'm mainly curious about is that having AI-powered search engines that fuck around with user input probably take a significantly larger amount of processing power and energy compared to something that just searches for a strict word-for-word matchingOh orders of magnitude larger.>an exact search option could be a lucrative paygated feature for a company like google/bing/yahooNobody can index any more because of Cloudflare and etc. There are no more web crawlers. Even if you WANT to be crawled it will probably be prevented and there's noting you can do. You don't want Cloudflare protection? Well fine, you will get DDOS'd all day every day then. Sign up, it's free? And it stops.It's free.
>>109656594probably but not for anglo internet
>>109656594Yeah, that's enshittification and it's been going on for quite a while now.One of the long-terms results of being infested by demonic parasites (jews).Google "verbatim" search still kinda works, though its less useful nowadays with most of the web missing/removed from their index.
>>109656676>AI-poweredSometimes I just want to vibecode a scraper to mirror a slice of their DB and run SQL queries in it. The fact that this seems like a good option shows how user-hostile everything is these days.
