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Google search is over (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JoBo@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

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?"

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[–] exu@feditown.com 14 points 1 year ago

Kagi also links to an alphabetical list as first result. However, they also have a "quick answer" button using an LLM.

Quick Answer

The country in Africa that starts with the letter K is Kenya. [1] Kenya is located in East Africa and shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. [2]

Alphabetical List of All African Countries - ThoughtCo Countries beginning with K - Worldometer

[–] Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au 14 points 1 year ago

Apparently, Google has also taken to suck deez nuts.

[–] Hyperion@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

"I have to check everything it outputs."

You should be doing that anyway.

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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.

[–] cristorf@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[–] crag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My chatGPT got it correctly ;)

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google Bard on the other hand.

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[–] gt24@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My ChatGPT, on the other hand, was not as helpful.

Bonus Bing AI result below.

[–] playerwhoplayyes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year 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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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

Ddg is powered by bing isn't it?

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year 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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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add to it Reddit use to have all the odd answers to things you had questions about. Unfortunately, for whatever reason that well has run dry.

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[–] Weirdmusic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Now that I think about it, I haven't used Google in a while, not even as a bang in DDG.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can confirm, still happening 🤦‍♂️

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

[–] Brendan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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[–] prey169@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Brave has a similar answer

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