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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JoBo to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social

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?"

Google Search is over.

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[–] Hyperion@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Post truth. From the big G. How times have changed.

Also, tested Bard a few times and current AI is close to useless: I have to check everything it outputs. Might as well get an intern

[–] Otkaz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

"I have to check everything it outputs."

You should be doing that anyway.

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[–] hayalci@fstab.sh 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

No need for using sensational/clickbait headlines like this.

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[–] resin85@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

The result if you unfortunately have Google's "Bard AI" search lab turned on. At least it has a disclaimer that the results may be garbage.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

We don't have AI. We have a chinese room.

[–] cristorf@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Showed up for me on google.ca lol. Glad I switched to duck duck go a whole a go.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years 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!

[–] itsmaxyd@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ddg is powered by bing isn't it?

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years 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?

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[–] playerwhoplayyes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's remind me when you search uselessbenchmark in google, it shows nothing related to userbenchmark but some post, if you search uselessbenchmark in DuckDuckGo and Bing it will show you userbenchmark in the first results.

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[–] crag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My chatGPT got it correctly ;)