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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Brave has a similar answer

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So if you search for something in Google, you Google(d) it

If I use DuckDuckGo... Is it duck it? If it's not it should be after all the years of autocorrect changing fuck it to duck it, I think society has earned this one.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can confirm, still happening 🤦‍♂️

So what are your bets, when will Google kill Google?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Here’s Kagi

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Alas, it has the emergent mind answer ranked fairly high still, and when search result was set to my country it was actually ranked highest.

Also, if you use Quick Answer, you’ll get same wrong answer:

Quick Answer There are no countries in Africa whose name starts fully with the letter "K". While Kenya is the closest match, its name does not start solely with "K" [1]. All of the African countries' names were reviewed across multiple sources and none began completely with the letter "K" [2][3][4].

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

How popular cuz I've never heard of it.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Bing gives me the right answer: that list of countries.

What an amazing time we live in. Where Bing is better than Google. Though Bing does have AI, I think you have to scroll up (past the top) or directly search with it so far.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

hasn't been like it was for years now.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Just checked on Kagi. It doesn't provide quick answer to this query, but that weird EmergentMind website is #1 on results. This is prolly because Kagi is taking some of the results from Google index, but good thing is, I can just block this website using lenses.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Compare with Kagi (this is a shared search for anyone who doesn't have an account):

https://kagi.com/search?q=country+in+Africa+that+starts+with+the+letter+K&r=se&sh=8keg7Qv2uStLGzldGYAhUg

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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023

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