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   Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 04:42:20 JST Joe Ortiz

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   • Lauren Weinstein
   • Mark T. Tomczak

   @lauren @mark Yep especially normal people as they never play around with filters or tabs as you should know.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 04:42:22 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark No, it's not a good thing. Because most people never touch the top bar and this is just an insincere gesture that Google knows only a tiny fraction of people will notice or even fewer will use. You know how many people have been amazed when I tell them you can filter results by date? They had no idea! Meanwhile, Google will continue sucking data out of those websites as those site views fall to zero, and when those sites vanish Google won't care since they've already got their data!

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 04:42:23 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     • Lauren Weinstein

     @lauren Isn't this a good thing? People who want to bypass the generative content can just go to the "Web" tab now. Granted, I'd like a way to shortcut into it like images.google.com taking me straight into Image search, but I imagine writing a Chrome extension to wallpaper that shouldn't be too hard if clicking the "web" button becomes a burden.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 04:42:24 JST Lauren Weinstein

     Google's sorry excuse for a "Web filter" demonstrates how much they plan to stuff AI down our throats and arrogantly starve for views the very sites that their AI is getting its info from. DISGUSTING. I'm starting to feel about #Google Search the way I now feel about #Twitter / X. Gone into the dumpster.

     https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/