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[–] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 172 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Meanwhile Google search results:

  • AI summary
  • 2x "sponsored" result
  • AI copy of Stackoverflow
  • AI copy of Geeks4Geeks
  • Geeks4Geeks (with AI article)
  • the thing you actually searched for
  • AI copy of AI copy of stackoverflow
[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 84 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Should we put bets on how long until chatgpt responds to anything with:

Great question, before i give you a response, let me show you this great video for a new product you'll definitely want to check out!

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 36 points 5 days ago

"Great question, before i give you a response, let me introduce you to raid shadow legends!"

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Username checks out

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Nah, it'll be more subtle than that. Just like Brawno is full of the electrolytes plants crave, responses will be full of subtle product and brand references marketers crave. And A/B studies performed at massive scales in real-time on unwitting users and evaluated with other AIs will help them zero in on the most effective way to pepper those in for each personality type it can differentiate.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Google search is literally fucking dogshit and the worst it has EVER been. I'm starting to think fucking duckduckgo (relies on Bing) gives better results at this point.

[–] Aielman15@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I have been using Duck for a few years now and I honestly prefer it to Google at this point. I'll sometimes switch to Google if I don't find anything on Duck, but that happens once every three or four months, if that.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I only go to the googs for maps.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Same here. I only switch to google to search for images for memes. For some reason bing has a harder time finding random star trek scenes.

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

The one thing Google still has over Duck for me at this point is reddit results. So much niche information is stored on that site, but they've blocked anyone other than Google from crawling the site so other engines can't index past the point they changed that policy.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I use ddg but find Google gives better results and Google's snippet feature still rocks.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Careful. People here get mad about that for some reason. Like you can't think Google sucks but that their search engine is still better than others. And people will argue with you that Google is way worse than anything else. I don't know what planet they are from.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't like AI in search engines but even duckduckgo's AI is better lol.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

And they let you turn it off

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm in sciences and the AI overview gives wrong answers ALL THE TIME. If students or god forbid professionals rely on it thats bad news.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Isn't it funny that a lot of people were worried that wikipedia would be unreliable because anyone could edit it, then turned out pretty reliable, but AI is being pushed hard despite being even more unreliable than the worst speculation about wikipedia?

Being for profit excuses being shitty I guess.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 points 5 days ago

AI is so fucking cap. There is no way to know if the information is accurate. It's completely unreliable.

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Ive been using only duckduck for years now. If I don’t find something there, I dont need it.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We have new feature, use it!

No, its broken and stupid, I prefer old feature.

... Fine!

breaks old feature even harder

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I’ve used Google since 2004. I stopped using it this year because as the parent comment points out, it’s all marketing and AI. I like Qwant but it’s not perfect but it functions like a previous version of Google.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have tried a few replacements for Google but I've yet to find anything remotely as effective for searches about things close to me. Like if I'm looking for a restaurant near me, kagi, startpage, and DDG are not good. Is qwant good for a use case like that? Haven't heard about it before.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I’ve had some success but it goes off of your ISPs server location so for me it’s not very useful.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

I have not enjoyed Qwant - tried it as my default but I'm back to DDG. I just want a functional Google again (boolean operators please...)

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

yeah, but at least we can vet that shit better that the unsourced and hallucinated drivel provided by ChatGPT

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Even adding, “Reddit” after a search only brings up posts from 7 years ago.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

The irony is that Gemini Pro is actually better than ChatGPT (which is not saying a ton, as OpenAI have completely stagnated and even some small open models are better now), but whatever they use for search is beyond horrible.