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Christian Guyton

Google search might be getting worse - and AI threatens to ruin it entirely

A person on the Google search landing page on a laptop.

A study by German researchers has confirmed what many of us have long suspected: Google search really is getting worse.

A team of researchers led by Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar, and the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, have conducted a year-long research experiment to answer the question "Is Google Getting Worse?", and the answer was essentially a resounding ‘yes’. The study wasn’t specifically confined to Google, also analyzing results from the Bing and DuckDuckGo search engines.

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