For coding answers, Google search may be doomed even without ChatGPT/GPT-4

1 pointsLrnByTeach2y ago1 comments

While coding a Prisma ORM Database insert, I searched for the following string on both Google.com and Phind.com

prisma client code to insert record into an autoincrement() column table

https://www.google.com/search?q=prisma+client+code+to+insert+record+into+an++autoincrement()+column+table

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=73025b84-ea43-43d9-b69f-1ab00e876f62&source=cache

Google results of the first couple of them did not provide any close code I am looking for, whereas Phind.com search gave a clear answer.

This example shows how ‘search revenue addicted Google’ failed to provide ‘point answers’ where as a few person search startup phind.com able to do. I don't believe Google is unaware of these new techniques for providing better answers

Even if we exclude ChatGPT/GPT-4, Google search appears to be lagging in many areas.

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brucethemoose22y ago

Yeah.

For all Google talks about conserving the quality of search, it sure seems to send me tons of SEO garbage these days, much of which is worse/more false than what an LLM could make up.

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