{"id":19939,"date":"2024-01-04T01:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=19939"},"modified":"2024-01-04T01:48:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T01:48:21","slug":"professor-wharton-talks-about-the-decline-of-internet-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=19939","title":{"rendered":"Professor Wharton talks about the decline of Internet search"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ethan Mollick, associate professor at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, posted there X<\/a> about his disappointment with general internet search. He wrote: “There’s no better way to feel the general decline of internet search than trying to figure out when and if a new season of a show is coming out.”<\/p>\n

For those inquiries, he said all he saw were “weird clickbait articles.” What it should be, he said, is “an official yes\/no or, at worst, rumors from overly specialized discussion forums.”<\/p>\n

Here is that post:<\/p>\n

There’s no better way to feel the general decline of internet search than trying to figure out when and if a new season of a show is premiering.<\/p>\n

All weird clickbait articles, when they should be an official yes\/no or, at worst, rumors from overly specialized discussion forums.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ethan Mollick (@emollick) December 31, 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n

I don’t really watch a lot of TV, but the searches I did on Google for the shows I know about seem like solid answers. Then again, maybe more obscure TV shows or maybe TV shows that just announced their next season a few minutes ago have a lot of spam? This would be the data gap problem that search engines have to deal with.<\/p>\n

For example, [when is the new season of ted lasso coming out<\/a>] showed me this after Ethan Mollick posted this tweet:<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, Google showed last season and so did Bing, but is that because nothing official was announced outside of this track?<\/p>\n

waiting for 202\ud835\udfd2… pic.twitter.com\/fqNyuYMJEh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nick Mohammed (@nickmohammed) December 30, 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n

Mikhail Parakhin of the Microsoft Bing search team answered<\/a> to this post saying, “What program were you looking for? At Bing, we really try. These are popular queries, so many sites are trying to do the SEO themselves to get traffic.”<\/p>\n

Here is that answer:<\/p>\n

What program were you looking for? At Bing, we really try. These are popular queries, so many sites try to do SEO to get traffic. pic.twitter.com\/YLA5XkQJfH<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) December 31, 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n

I am too curious about the query, what exactly did you search for\u2026 <\/p>\n

Over the past couple of months, there has been a lot of negative talk about the poor quality of search on Google Search.<\/p>\n

It’s great that Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakhin responded to this concern over the New Year’s weekend.<\/p>\n

Discussion in the forum a X<\/a>.<\/p>\n