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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Via @[email protected]

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K." "What about Kenya?" "Kenya suck deez nuts?"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Apparently, Google has also taken to suck deez nuts.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Post truth. From the big G. How times have changed.

Also, tested Bard a few times and current AI is close to useless: I have to check everything it outputs. Might as well get an intern

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

"I have to check everything it outputs."

You should be doing that anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No need for using sensational/clickbait headlines like this.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The result if you unfortunately have Google's "Bard AI" search lab turned on. At least it has a disclaimer that the results may be garbage.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Showed up for me on google.ca lol. Glad I switched to duck duck go a whole a go.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

We don't have AI. We have a chinese room.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My chatGPT got it correctly ;)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google Bard on the other hand.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My ChatGPT, on the other hand, was not as helpful.

Bonus Bing AI result below.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I left google search some 5 years ago. About twice a year I find myself trying it and being amazed by how crap it is.

DDG FTW!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ddg is powered by bing isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's basically bing with no Microsoft tracking. What the hell kind of timeline is this where bing is the best search engine?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's remind me when you search uselessbenchmark in google, it shows nothing related to userbenchmark but some post, if you search uselessbenchmark in DuckDuckGo and Bing it will show you userbenchmark in the first results.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Now that I think about it, I haven't used Google in a while, not even as a bang in DDG.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not doing it anymore

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add to it Reddit use to have all the odd answers to things you had questions about. Unfortunately, for whatever reason that well has run dry.

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