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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    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!

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (36 children)

    So weird, that's not what I see.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Technically, generative AI will always give the same answer when given the same input. But, what happens is a "seed" is mixed in to help randomize things, that way it can give different answers every time even if you ask it the same question.

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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    AI and its consequences have been a disaster for Google.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    Well, we know Google won't get rid of this.

    They'll only cancel it after it actually works and becomes useful

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Did somebody say enshittification?

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Short answer, yes. The ratio of LLM generated noise to actual content is increasing exponentially as we speak. To us it seems overnight because the increase is so steep but it's been happening for several years. And it's going to get a lot worse.

    Honestly, I think we'll have to go back to 90s methods like web rings and human curated link directories.

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    Will, it's not wrong. Welcome to the AI powered world of tomorrow.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (22 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    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.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's time to return to human curated directories.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    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!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    They lost it a long time ago

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    lmao not prepared for this comedy from google

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Can't recreate this. Or any of the other AI flops people keep posting

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    [+] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    This is amazing

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