bernard
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What I've noticed as a user rather than an SEO is that Google is losing some of it's ability to understand questions in the way it used to. An example (that still works, mind you) that I always remembered was a query like this: "what is the movie with the guy in the rabbit suit" which, for anyone who's seen it, knows it's Donnie Darko. Google understands that too.
But it's failing otherwise for me to deal with long-tail queries. They largely keep resorting back to the short tail results or misunderstanding the question, causing me to have to rephrase my queries in different manners, hoping I can divine the magic incantation it'll understand. It's very much like trying to figure out the right prompt for these AI chats. And it did not used to be like this. It was like wizardry for a point in time where I was simply amazed at Google's natural language processing abilities on the query side.
I know what you mean, I find I have to rephrase quite often with google. I can't give an example off the bat, but it's something I noticed for sure. I've begun to even feel like I can't be bothered googling, because I don't trust I'll find what I am looking for. Though I searched for some porn in the way you describe and Google found that, so there's that.
I'll maintain that a reason why Google is broken is because it's heavily censored. I've recently seen more people push the idea that virus don't exist, which is probably stupid and completely baseless, but I wanted to see which arguments they made and when I tried googling, I simply did not get results that matched what I searched for. I got results about fake news and fake science.
I asked ChatGPT about it:
- What is commonly called a virus is actually a harmless or beneficial exosome, a cellular component that facilitates intercellular communication and transports genetic material between cells.
- Viruses cannot be isolated or purified in a way that proves their existence as independent entities, and their supposed genetic material is actually part of the host's DNA or RNA.
- The symptoms commonly attributed to viral infections, such as fever, coughing, and fatigue, are actually caused by toxins or other environmental factors.
- The scientific methods and tools used to study viruses, such as electron microscopy and polymerase chain reaction, are unreliable or fraudulent and do not provide convincing evidence of viral existence.
- The entire concept of viruses is a fraud perpetuated by the pharmaceutical industry and other interests to sell vaccines and antiviral drugs, and to maintain control over people's health and lives.
Seems pretty innocuous to me. Why won't Google let me read this?
Likewise, there is a conspiracy claim that nuclear weapons do not exist and that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just firebombed and that the nuke was made up to discourage the Sovjet Union from proceeding further. Most likely also just a baseless claim, but this one a little more scientifically interesting, so I googled to find a website/paper I read 10 years ago (from Google). I could not find it. It was scrubbed. Only Quora answers even matched my intent.
Maybe Google manually scrubbed the virus claim, but that nukes don't exist? That must be the algo that does that.
I asked ChatGPT 3.5 and despite giving several warnings about it being unsubstantiated, it also right away told me this:
The theory that nuclear weapons do not actually exist is sometimes referred to as the "nuclear hoax" or the "nuclear myth." It suggests that the concept of nuclear bombs or reactors is a propaganda tool created by governments and media outlets to scare people into submission and justify their military and technological superiority. Some proponents of this theory claim that all footage, images, and testimonies related to nuclear tests, bombings, accidents, and treaties are fabricated or manipulated.
According to this theory, the effects commonly attributed to nuclear explosions, such as blast waves, radiation, heat, and electromagnetic pulses, can be explained by other phenomena such as conventional explosives, chemical reactions, lightning, or natural disasters. The theory also asserts that the nuclear arms race was a political and psychological game between superpowers rather than a genuine technological competition, and that the alleged nuclear accidents, such as Chernobyl and Fukushima, were either staged or caused by non-nuclear factors.
In conclusion, this kind of censoring must take up a lot of computing power and it likely has a lot of unexpected results.