I paid attention to what the users shared under his X post and I wrote this short article showing how disappointed users are with Google Search.
As usual, I have no problem with people who strongly disagree.
Your comments are all appreciated! :)
Why do you feel I'm hyping Grok and predict "...until you hype something else weeks later"?
I just wrote a draft concluding that Grok might be an idiot after all after a stupid answer.
I don't know how well you understand crawling, rendering, indexing and ranking in organic search but I'm not sure you know what I do on a daily basis.
I'd love to be involved in the creation of tools, and I would love to try to understand their back-end.
I'm the opposite of hype. If you want to roast me, here's a video that should give you some inspiration:
A few hours ago, I was replying to a post about "Gradual Disempowerment" from generative AI. My theory (just a guess, not researched like your case study!) is that Google and Apple (and maybe Microsoft and Amazon) are diverting CAPEX away from their core businesses to chase after AI chimeras. And as a result, the quality of their services (e.g. Google Search) is static or degrading. So, in order to improve Gemini, is Alphabet diverting resources from Google Search?
Over at Tyler Cowen's blog, this guy said Gemini got irritated when he cursed at it. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/gr... My comment is right after his (as Ellie Kesselman). Maybe you'll lol about Siri.
First, I'm glad you were amused by my Linkedin trolling! :D
Next, I think we all wish the quality of Google Search were "static" but it is degrading instead.
What you mentioned is probably the reason and this is a quick observation I made at the beginning of this hiking video yesterday:
This and the declining quality of results explain why I haven't used Google search in years.
Now, explain why Grok will not be more of the same? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The advantage of using Grok (or any alternative to Google Search!) is that there isn't an entire ecosystem of pervasive prying Alphabet services to go along with it: Gmail, Youtube, Google Play, Google SMS (Verizon terminated its SMS for text and recommended all users use Google instead, in November 2024), Google Meet or whatever they call it, and probably more. It can track you everywhere, and a deliberate effort is required to evade it with alternative providers.
But this doesn't explain how/why Musk/X/xGrok isn't just more of the same.
Just like Google, Musk is driven by greed. What he really wants is some of Google's money for himself. And the easy way to achieve this is by doing what Google does --- or perhaps even working in cooperation with them.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
You can sign-up using X / Google / Apple accounts or email so you are not forced to be locked in an ecosystem but you are benefiting from answers coming from and index made up of scapped web pages and an index of X posts (+others)
What have you used instead? Other search engines? LLMs?
Any centralized eco-system with interconnected products/services = privacy invasion by design.
