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   Atelerix (richelletrickel@twit.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 07:39:50 JST Atelerix

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   @kottke funny this post comes up now. About 15 minutes ago I changed my default search on the work computer to DuckDuckGo because I was tired of Google’s useless AI results. Old information, wrong information, or not at all what I was looking for was 95% of what I was getting. Makes it completely useless.

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     kottke.org (kottke@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 07:39:51 JST kottke.org

     Google is replacing their search results with AI answers. There’s a very simple explanation for this: it’s better/cheaper to provide potentially wrong answers to keep you clicking within Google than it is to send you away for the right answers. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview

     Crystal_Fish_Caves repeated this.