Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds (www.businessinsider.com)
from neme@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 21:49
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 22 Jun 21:50 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The SEO marketing platform analyzed 100,000 keywords in June and found Reddit was no longer in the top 10 linked domains in Google’s AI Overviews.

One incident included when it told a user to put glue on pizza to keep the cheese intact — a suggestion that seems to have been based on a Reddit comment more than a decade ago.

SE Ranking’s study also shows that LinkedIn, Wikipedia, and YouTube are in third, fourth, and sixth positions of the top 10 linked domains, respectively.

The SEO tool provider carried out a similar study in February before Google rolled out the AI feature to the public, which found that the overviews included many snippets from forums Reddit and Quora.

Google showed significantly fewer AI Overviews, previously called SGE (Search Generative Experience), in the June study than it did in February.

Liz Reid, the Search VP, addressed the pizza glue fiasco at a recent all-hands meeting, according to audio obtained by CNBC, saying the company would not “hold back features” if there were “occasional problems.”


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Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 22 Jun 22:04 next collapse

Wonder how good Google is feeling about that 60 million dollar deal to scrape all of Reddits wisdom

Boozilla@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 22:07 next collapse

Reddit wisdom:

“This”

“Bacon”

“OK, boomer”

pun thread 37 levels deep

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 22:15 next collapse

Narwhal

Steve@startrek.website on 23 Jun 02:36 collapse

Bacons

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 23 Jun 02:48 collapse

at midnit omg we are all le redditors!!!

DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jun 11:12 collapse

Oh, me from 15 years ago. How young I was (30!)

DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 22:41 next collapse

Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!

muse@fedia.io on 22 Jun 22:45 collapse

Double edit: wow, this is my top comment??

recursive_recursion@programming.dev on 23 Jun 00:13 collapse

Triple edit: omg thank you all for the (totally not useless) awards!!

OpenStars@discuss.online on 23 Jun 00:20 collapse

How long before the AI answer to every question is simply “username checks out”? :-P

9point6@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 23:26 next collapse

I wonder how Reddit investors are feeling when they find out even Google couldn’t pull something valuable out of the Reddit data

otp@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jun 23:59 collapse

Yet I still add “Reddit” to a search query when looking for product reviews or technical/home maintenance support, lol

I can do it really well manually…but Google’s AI sucks at it.

They forgot to account for trolls…and how often trolls would get upvoted for the lulz

otter@lemmy.ca on 23 Jun 00:05 next collapse

sarcasm is already hard to understand online, even harder for generative AI

I know sometimes I would take a peek at the person’s comment history to see if they were well informed / a shill for the product. The AI can’t do that

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jun 03:12 collapse

Generative AI doesn’t understand anything, it just adds it to it’s model. If more people are being sarcastic than genuine in the data set, that’ll be more represented in the generated text.

AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It’s probably just taking posts at face value.

balder1991@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 01:39 next collapse

Doing that would require significantly more compute power, so there’s little economic incentive.

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 10:25 collapse

AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It’s probably just taking posts at face value.

This is not being done though right? I haven’t heard anything about content ranking with connections outside of Google seemingly using authors name is articles from large news sources.

DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jun 11:13 collapse

We need to stop calling it AI. It’s LLM and there is no intelligence.

otp@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jun 12:10 collapse

I know it’s not “intelligent”, but I don’t get gatekeeping the phrase “AI”.

We were perfectly happy to use “AI” to refer to the logic of computer-controlled enemies in video games for probably decades.

Odelay42@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 00:57 next collapse

Unfortunately it’s pocket change for them.

Meaningless wager that despite not paying off still probably taught them an enormous amount about reddit and its users.

billiam0202@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 03:37 collapse

I would have taught Google everything they wanted to know about Reddit and Redditors for only $30 million.

Blackmist@feddit.uk on 23 Jun 16:01 collapse

I’d imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.

Carrolade@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 22:06 next collapse

Ah, LinkedIn, exactly where I want to get nuanced answers to weird questions from.

TacticsConsort@yiffit.net on 22 Jun 22:14 next collapse

Somehow this is worse than Reddit. Sure Reddit isn’t good, but at least Reddit was sane enough to understand concepts like ‘working too much is deeply unhealthy both physically and mentally’ and ‘corporations should not hold absolute power’

sunzu@kbin.run on 22 Jun 23:02 collapse

at least Reddit was sane enough

That's the issue, a veneer of anonymity. These fucking wagies lost any sense of fear and saying the truth. Disgusting.

DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jun 11:11 collapse

“wagies”?

sunzu@kbin.run on 24 Jun 12:22 collapse

Losers who have to work for money in order to survive

robotica@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 17:04 collapse

The fuck? Get off the internet for a bit and touch some grass

sunzu@kbin.run on 24 Jun 17:21 collapse

truth hurts tho huh

Makhno@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 19:59 collapse

Only way you aren’t a “wagie” is if you’re a trust-fund baby lol

So are you a trust-fund whiny bitch baby?

sunzu@kbin.run on 26 Jun 20:01 collapse

My body of work speaks for itself, dear.

PS. nice handle but i know westoid tankies worship him in the wrong way... which is u?

remotelove@lemmy.ca on 23 Jun 02:26 collapse

There is a large collection of poorly written articles/blogs on LinkedIn, actually. They are just bad enough to be good enough for Google.

Strangely enough, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft actually let Google use it as a data source, it was to sabotage Google’s AI training.

TheBat@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 04:24 collapse

Do we have Linkedin Lunatics on reddit?

CautiousCharacter@awful.systems on 23 Jun 15:38 collapse

!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 10:27 collapse

Thanks! Too bad it’s not more activity.

Outside of job searching, I can’t stand LinkedIn, the “content” and self-promotion you see there makes me want to become a committed misanthrope.

AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com on 23 Jun 01:22 next collapse

LinkedIn is Facebook, if the people you follow could fire you for not being a total brown-nosing boot licker.

Well, the other option is an unemployable dipshit that needs somewhere to rant, thereby making themselves even less employable.

IamAnonymous@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 03:24 collapse

I started using the app regularly as I was looking for a job and I’m surprised by how many post and comment about politics, especially on public posts and treat it like it’s Facebook.

partial_accumen@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 03:38 collapse

Its extremely helpful that people post that stuff. It shows that they lack the boundaries needed to work in a professional environment and you should avoid hiring them.

todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee on 23 Jun 05:32 next collapse

It’s never too late to take up shitposting on LinkedIn.

residentmarchant@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 22:18 next collapse

Do people ever post real content there…? I’m concerned if so

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 23:18 collapse

You mean… LinkedIn? If there’s any site that perfects the shitpost, it’s LinkedIn. Everyone is bullshitting their pants off there.

kerrypacker@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 23:29 collapse

It’s an honour and a privilege to tell you how awesome I am.

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 23:33 collapse

Dude, do you know how much ass I beat at my last gig? It was tremendous (parts hands away from myself).

iAvicenna@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 23:35 next collapse

“wait what if someone asks a question and Google AI quickly directs that person to the most relevant resources. Now wouldn’t that be a great innovation.”

-Some shareholder or CEO probably

AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee on 24 Jun 03:43 collapse

Well, here’s the part where I hope people are able to make a Wikipedia alternative so we can turn Wikipedia into a cesspool to ensure the enshitification of gøøg|e. That, and if I ever get a Wikipedia article made about me (which will probably never happen), I’m signing up with an account and absolutely trashing it to say things that will cause whatever any AI looking at it to spout the most absurd shit.