I spent most of today looking at places to rent in Denver and I come home to Google having killed it's fucking search engine. What the hell is going on
That's what you get for trying to have a real life.
How does je dare to.
Google decided that the entirety of reddit is perfect for training data in their AI LLM. People's shitposts from 10 years ago have now been given the spotlight at the top of google searches.
Google has been bad for a long time, but they've shut the bed so hard lately. Seriously, look at this:
I actually run out of screenshot space before I can get to an actual regular search result!
Search done from Germany.
The mobile search doesnt look much different. The order on mobile is as follows:
Both are Firefox Desktop (Win) and Mobile (Android) running Consent-O-Matic and ublock Origin
Bing has a similar problem where it just repeats the results, some pages are only 1 result so you just keep clicking next
So weird, that's not what I see.
There for me
Yup me too 🫡
A/B testing moment
Works on my machine.
Oh perfect. We'll just point production to your machine.
Same
But the real question is, is the colour blue that you see, the colour blue that I see?
AI and its consequences have been a disaster for Google.
... a disaster for ~~Google~~ humanity.
Well, we know Google won't get rid of this.
They'll only cancel it after it actually works and becomes useful
We really need a whole community just for the very funny AI errors like this. I could spend all day reading about leaving a dog in a hot car, jumping off a bridge and eating at least one rock a day.
Did somebody say enshittification?
I asked Google for the release date of the new Final Fantasy XIV expansion today, which comes out June 28th. It told me March 26th
I'm pretty sure March 26 is the day the pre-order started, so that one at least kind of makes sense.
Will, it's not wrong. Welcome to the AI powered world of tomorrow.
I stopped using Google years ago. I started using Bing but had to stop that as it would divert me to MSN to sign in when clicking a link for a news article. Like a news article for The Independent or The Times or any other.
I then started using DuckDuckGo which is powered by Bing, but found it wasn’t great at many searches.
I now use Arc Search most of the time and click browse for me to get the information I want without the bullshit. Search is essentially dead due to greed.
I'm finding SearXNG to be very good. It operates like dogpile used to but is actually functional and it pretty much entirely squelches product placement results. I actually have to manually go to google if I want to get product listings for something.
Startpage and Qwant are the best alternatives IMO.
https://www.qwant.com/
https://www.startpage.com/
It's time to return to human curated directories.
how do you guys get these things? I never see any summaries like that. I wonder if one of my adblockers is killing google AI lmao. Do you have to be logged into your google account? I never log into google any more.
Behold the wonders of AI! Now, we don't have to pay human beings to edit webpages for us! Thanks to AI, you can just sit back and watch the money roll in!
Can't recreate this. Or any of the other AI flops people keep posting
Thats because LLMs have a certain level of randomisation built in. You wont always get the same result for any given inquiry
They lost it a long time ago
lmao not prepared for this comedy from google
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