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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
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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?"

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[–] MakeItCount@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] 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

[–] ox0r@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

Metaverse part 2

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Same with brave search. Da fuq is going on anymore.

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year 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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[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It was dogass before ChatGPT. Bing is legitimately better, although it uses chat gpt too.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, I didn't know AI was dumb (for now).

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

[–] artic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

i use ddg and kagi for search

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