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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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[–] prey169@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Brave has a similar answer

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[–] ittu@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

hasn't been like it was for years now.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] ox0r@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

Metaverse part 2

[–] MakeItCount@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Works perfectly fine for me

"Kenya. Kenya is a country located in East Africa. It shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia."

The. First two actual results links are : Countries that start with "K" and Category:Countries in Africa

Tested in both English and French

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[–] alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe it's because I have ad blockers on, and try to avoid AI like the plague, but my google searches are giving me actual results rather than what you're describing.

Then again, I know google gives different results based on the user.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 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

[–] Aelorius@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

That is why some people are building new search engines as admarust.net a full p2p search engine able to index IPFS content. https://github.com/Mubelotix/admarus

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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