Was looking for pharmacy hours. Need my meds today.
"AI overview" showed me it was open til 10pm. I squinted and looked at the correct results below: open until 7pm.
Going to gets my meds now before it closes.
Fuck AI.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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Search has literally gotten so much worse since they forced AI into it. Can I please have 2020 google back? Hell even earlier likely.
Tip: Adding "before:2022" in your image searches will avoid a lot of AI slop.
I've had both DDG(Bing) and Google give me "no results found" for a query I know with 100% certainty worked a few years ago.
Started with a few words in a row in quotation marks, and it just goes nope. Then you add a bunch of related keywords and suddenly it can find it just fine. And will even highlight the phrase you had in quotation marks, the one it claimed had zero results. Because it no longer uses your words to actually search through web page contents, it puts your query into an LLM and uses that to filter and lookup things.
This is my exact assumption. It use to be very useful to use quotes for finding very specific things like file names. Now it's just garbage and returns no results when the LLM spits out garbage.
I just can't understand why it doesn't fallback to old behavior.
Seems like they actually have lost their old infrastructure by implementing LLM stuff. They literally went backwards in terms of search.
Oh, hell no. Does anyone have a list of which search engines do that? Or alternatively, a list of search engines that explicitly don't?
Because I don't even know where to search to find this kind of information anymore.
Just add "fuck" to your search and never see the AI overview again.
I work with kids. If I tried that approach with some of the things I need to look up, I'd probably end up with Feds at my door.
Use "&udm=14" instead.
Fuck blippi park near me.
Another things that sucks with search engines these days:
Try searching for information on a subject that has been in the news recently (not info about news event), and all you get is current blogs and news articles from today and yesterday..
Yeah. Sadly Twitter is still the best place to get breaking news. As long as you follow respectable journalist.