Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Part of it might be how Google trained everyone to use natural language queries in their searches.

    Instead of “how to fit a dog collar” does

    “pet advice” +”dog collar” “guidance for new dog owners”

    give you better results?

    The idea is to search for a cluster of terms that are likely to be on the page you want to find, but aren’t hyper-focused like SEO pages.