The Rot-Com Bubble

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13 points·marban··3 comments

Interesting, what do people think?

I remember how happy I was, as a 17 or 18 year old geek, when I saw AOL collapse under its own executive hubris after the com crash. Our family had already switched from the $25 a month AOL to a cheaper $9.95 dial up service a couple years before the s** really hit the fan for the company.

Now I'm hoping I'll get to see the executives kill Google!

I already stopped using Google search 5 years ago in favor of duck duck Go, falling back on Google only when absolutely necessary. In those five years I've seen Google's search decline, until they are no better than duck duck Go - and potentially worse!

Now we have effective ai assisted knowledge synthesis in the form of gpt4 and similar systems. But Google completely messed up their own AI search rollout, because they used a cheap GPT 3.5 level system.

I love to see it, because Im actually happy with ddg and llm assisted search and knowledge synthesis workflows. Crash and burn, ABC.

I used to trust in the autofill google search suggestions. I feel like they would generally point you in a direction where there was meaningful answers/discourse. I feel like nowadays the autofill suggestions lead me nowhere, telling me what I want to search but not actually checking to see if there is anything worthwhile at the end.

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