-
Do you agree Google AI results has lead to a reduced information quality?
I have been getting too much of wrong information when Google AI results pop up. For example I was doing keyword research for a client on Bitcoin Oracle, and I was repeatedly getting articles on Blockchain Oracle, a very different thing.
-
1 Reply
-
It seems to me that search quality has been in decline for quite some time. The introduction of AI may have accelerated that or exacerbated it but that’s debatable, what seem indisputable is that the results we get are increasingly useless.
-
Yes, **Google AI** results can sometimes lead to reduced information quality due to factors like algorithm limitations, SEO practices, and user experience issues.
-
Yes but it will not hurt their business. So, either as a content creator we must embrace it or else we will perish!
-
I read an article other day that Google is revoking the AI update or redacting to be precise. I think they’re working on it to fix it.
-
When you are conducting specific research, such as comparing Oracle bitcoin and Oracle blockchain, it is very important to use more targeted tools and databases, as well as manually verify sources
-
I’m gonna be the bearer of bad news….
Most normal people I know in real life, outside of SEO, find Google’s recent changes to be great.
In summer of 2023, before the HCU, it was quite common to hear regular users complain about how bad the results had gotten. Too much spam, thinly veiled sales pitches, repetitive and low quality results, and affiliate link/ad-ridden blogs.
It had become extremely common among regular, non-SEO, non-tech people to add **reddit** to the end of searches for the “real” results.
Everything Google has done in the past 10 months has been to reverse this negative public perception of the quality of their search results.
And guess what? I believe it is working. In my own surveys of clients, colleagues, friends and family, they all seem to overwhelmingly approve of the changes Google has made recently.
Secondly, Alphabet’s stock price is **soaring** this year. Ultimately, all corporations only care about one thing: shareholder value. As long as this trend keeps up, Google will not be majorly changing anything. Certainly they will not be going back to the way it was before.
The new AI overview results are **fantastic** for searches like “who was the 9th president of the United States” or “how many elements are in the periodic table” but for now a bit more shaky on product/service information. This will change and improve over time. Remember, this is still *very new* technology. We’re at the beginning of all future time with this.
Moral of my rant: stop complaining about changes at Google tanking your site. Accept that this is how it’s going to be from now on, adapt, and expand beyond Google/SEO. If you keep dwelling on the past you’re not gonna to survive much longer.
That’s just my 2¢
-
For some simple questions like “what is”, “how to”, “where”, AI is pretty good.
But for complex questions or search queries, AI won’t help much.
-
It’s basically an advanced version of Google’s featured snippets, but appears limited right now in scope in where it actually shows.
Google’s play here should have been like how Bing introduced a separate chat feature and SOME integration directly into the sidebar of the search results.
-
Yeah, AI results can be super frustrating. False relevance is a growing issue.
-
It’s either hit or miss now
-
Terrible blogs (designed to rank, that do not say anything) contributed more to the reduction in info quality.
The the point that I append “reddit” to every google search.
-
Hell yes. I can’t find anything I want now… I often have to try a combination of other search engines
-
Previously, I had some faith in google’s result to be the most accurate for my search query. However, after some very bad results, I’m now in a state of uncertainty whenever I search something on google, cause there might be some better results, which it is hiding for some unknown reasons. So I backup my search with DDG and bing, which is time consuming. So things have become worse, yes…
-
The SEO-optimized articles I create generate the majority of my client base (aside from referrals.) While AI results have produced low-quality information, I don’t quite blame AI. At least, in my industry, there’s a lot of banal surface-level information that isn’t really all that useful.
This has been a concern for me for a while now. Misinformation in my industry is all over the place. And, it’s not just Google search results either. It’s often exacerbated by creators on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and other shortform content that forces creators to cover complex topics in just a few seconds.
-
Yeah, Google is a sinking ship. Their main product (the search engine) has turned to absolute shit. It didn’t start with AI though – not penalising affiliate sites was the first real thing that turned things around and degraded the quality of web content and web searches greatly.
Log in to reply.