The British entrepreneur says search results are plagued with ‘clickbait’

Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.

Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”

He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.

Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.

  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldEnglish
    273·
    1 year ago

    ‘entrepreneur’ lacks the positive vibe it used to bring. like saying ‘visionary’ or ‘genius’. overuse has tipped these terms into ‘yeah right’ and ‘clickbait’ especially when appearing in headlines. blame google for aggregating clickbait headlines but they aren’t writing them. interesting that telegraph.co.uk hosting this is packed full with ‘clickbait’. designed with LCD appeal and low value content like this story

    • Moltz@lemm.eeEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      And why do you think they are written in this manner? Does it have something to do with ads? Praytell, who owns the ad platform as well as search?

      Pretty balsy to blame the writers, they are simply chasing the algorithm Google makes. In the end, Google does really control it all. So if you wanna be mad at someone, I’d say start with the one forcing everyone to do this.

      • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        why can’t bing and ddg take more market share. simply poor algorithm design or is one actually better. G haters unite!

        • Moltz@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Because they both pull the same censorship so there’s no discernable difference where it matters?

          Gimme a call when any website can exist purely on DDG traffic or Bing’s ad platform.