An increase in searches isn't necessarily a positive thing. Anecdotally, I've increased the number of Google searches I do simply because it now requires multiple attempts to frame my query in a way that provides the results I'm actually looking for!

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Melatonic 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

But think of all the additional ads that uBlock origin is now hiding you could have seen :-D

	▲	evanelias 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Believe it or not, some of us don't use ad blockers. The ads are easy to ignore anyway when they're as irrelevant as the bad search results!

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simfree 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A decrease in search quality has damaged trust with the userbase, making crummy, unreliable data sources like LLMs seem much more viable.

	▲	AbstractH24 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Do you have any evidence to prove this? Seems logical to me, but then my 71 year old mother with doctorates in both science and literature pulls out her phone and trusts Google AI results without thinking twice.