That has never been true for Google. That’s what other search engines did in the late 90s, and Google’s success comes precisely from implementing smart ranking rather than just being a directory.
They were also early adopters of semantic search using NLP and embeddings, way before LLMs became popular.
That has never been true for Google. That’s what other search engines did in the late 90s, and Google’s success comes precisely from implementing smart ranking rather than just being a directory.
They were also early adopters of semantic search using NLP and embeddings, way before LLMs became popular.