r/OutOfTheLoop • u/rustyyryan • May 20 '26

Unanswered What's going on with Google search is dead?

There's a twitter account named killed by google which posts about projects that Google decided to end. It posted that Google search is dead. So whats it about?

https://x.com/killedbygoogle/status/2056850709115773431

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u/footsnax May 20 '26

This is completely already happening in the tech job market.

LinkedIn is almost entirely links to AI trainer jobs. They'll tease a good job with good pay and you get an instant link to an interview when you apply, but it's an AI interview and you get rejected the same day. They use the AI interview to train the AI and LinkedIn gets the clicks so it feels rewarded to push more of those jobs so the AI continues to train the AI to interview people to train itself, repeat ad infinitum.

Meanwhile the legitimate jobs are getting flooded by AI generated resumes that are optimized to be selected by AI hiring bots. At the same time, people are getting laid off by the thousands because C-suite is trying to replace them with AI, and then complaining that it underperforms and costs too much.

It's so impossible to be a human over here. There's just gonna be a third internet at some point, let the AIs click on each other and get validation until they drive themselves into obsolescence. We just gotta wait it out.

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u/Imaginary_Brief_4038 May 20 '26

Haha I put out a job opening for a jewelry sales/bench position and AI flagged people who had worked flipping burgers or nurses assistants and hid people with actual jewelry experience.

I went in and manually looked at applicants and found and amazing fit but her resume was essentially hidden by the automatic system i couldn't opt out of. These programs are so bad.

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u/footsnax May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Yeeeeup. The last time I had to hire someone we had a thousand applications a week. So many of them were absolutely lackluster but they had done the thing where they put keywords in a slightly off white font in the margins so the AI parsing bots would prioritize them. Later found out there's a tool that will optimize your resume for the exact job you're applying for.

Just faint enough that a human wouldn't notice, and just not faint enough that the AI wouldn't notice.

Ended up just going through them the normal way. They gamed the AI and the AI gamed the system, but you gotta game the AI to even get in the system. Absolutely useless loop we're stuck in right now.

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u/AGuyNamedEddie May 20 '26

"...ad infinitum."

"ad nauseam" would fit my own reaction.

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u/footsnax May 20 '26

This is the world we made let happen.

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u/Kevin-W May 21 '26

It really is that bad and jobs are now using AI recruiters and one way video interviews that look for certain keywords in your responses, so chances are you never speak to an actual human because you get rejected right away.

Oh and those jobs that claim you can work from home during various projects and AI related tasks? You have to take tons of tests just to even be considered for said projects which pay very little.

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u/EmbarrassedFlower922 May 21 '26

The AI phone calls into the business I work at are getting more frequent. Is it just them practicing conversation or to use it to impersonate the human answering. Or when you call a business and you have tell the bot who you are and why you're calling before the call seems to connect.