[youerbt]

And the modern web search tools don't even try to be good at searching, but some engagement-bullshit-here-is-something-that-might-interest-you contraption.

I love listening to bootlegs (recording of a concert that is not official, mostly done by fans). I happen to be a fan of a band that has quite dedicated fan base and tons of bootlegs. I remember, and I'm quite sure of it, that I could type "<BAND> <SONG> <YEAR> live" in youtube search and get pages upon pages of exactly that. Recording of the song by the band, in given year.

Today if I type "tool right in two live" I get:

actually what I requested - 12

official audio - 1

cover song - 4

other song by the band - 12

full concert - 4

"reaction" video - 4

And after that there are mostly "reaction" videos, yea, just what I wanted. Try it out, it's actually funny (and sad).

[hansvm]

Nearly a 1/3 success rate for the first page of results? Honestly, I thought things were worse.

[youerbt]

Yes, I thought I just wanted to chill and listen to a song, but actually cutting-edge AI technology decided that I will have a better time listening to this car mechanic over-reacting to my favorite song, that he surely hears for the first time in his life.

Not to mention that our AI-overlords coming out swinging, with a billion of dollars research behind, couldn't figure out that if I'm looking for a live recording of a song, then maybe, just maybe, I actually know those other songs too and could search those if I wanted to. Let's give them a few years to go back to search results they had a few years ago.