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The silent force behind online echo chambers? Your Google search (news.tulane.edu)
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In an era defined by polarized views on everything from public health to politics, a new Tulane University study offers insight into why people may struggle to change their minds—especially when they turn to the internet for answers.

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[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, the way search engines have implemented LLMs have made it much worse.

You can go on google or duckduckgo and search for one thing, click the top link and click back after a few seconds. And the order of results has changed. So the second link you thought might have been correct(and was), is now 5-6 or lower. And the new second link is even worse than the first and usually generative content catered to the first link you clicked(wrongly).