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we've decided we can't be bothered with traditional search

Traditional search (at least on the web) is dying. The entire edifice is drowning under a rapidly rising tide of spam and scam sites. No one, including Google, knows what to do about it so we're punting on the whole project and hoping AI will swoop in like deus ex machina and save the day.

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>The entire edifice is drowning under a rapidly rising tide of spam and scam sites.

You make this claim with such confidence, but what is it based on?

There have always been hordes of spam and scam websites. Can you point to anything that actually indicates that the ratio is now getting worse?

There have always been hordes of spam and scam websites. Can you point to anything that actually indicates that the ratio is now getting worse?

No, there haven't always been hordes of spam and scam websites. I remember the web of the 90s. When Google first arrived on the scene every site on the results page was a real site, not a spam/scam site.

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