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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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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] 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bing is absolute trash too.