Google Scholar finally falls to “AI in everything”

Who thinks Google searches have gotten better recently? Because I have not seen anyone say that.

A few days ago, Google Scholar started its version of putting “AI” (large language models) to Google Scholar. Because that’s what every app does now whether users want it or not.

Google Scholar was one of the few online services I used regularly that hasn’t shown signs of enshittification. Scholar just worked. The complaints about it were things like that the metrics could be gamed, and it wasn’t perfect at screening out non-academic content. But I never heard from the online research community that the core search function was somehow deeply deficient at finding relevant papers.

Disappointed. But I expect this from Google now, just like I do from every tech company.