Looks like I’m spoiled for choice. Temu has exactly the same for 11.29. Not that I’d be purchasing from either place; it’s just another example of Amazon’s enshittification.

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    14 hours ago

    In 2008 you could do a web search and have relevant real results right on the first page. Maybe an ad or two.

    Now it is effectively:

    • AI summary
    • ad
    • ad
    • ad
    • link that is effectively an ad
    • link to AI generated website
    • link to AI generated website
    • link to an actual decent result
    • link to a questionable result
    • link to AI generated website
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      8 hours ago

      In 2008 you could do a web search and have relevant real results

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing

      Google had (mostly) solved this problem by 2007. I couldn’t name another search engine that could claim the same.

      But the process of Spamdexing has been an ongoing war of the websites since the nineties. Google never fully solved it, they just did a better job than most up until the big executive shift in 2018.

      The spam site takeover of your search results in the modern day is as much a consequence of modernization in Spamdexing as it is any search engine’s own failures. None of those AI content mill sites existed to index 20 years ago

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      12 hours ago

      You can change search provider and have the experience back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯