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Oh wow sounds great, can I get in line now to not use it?
I don't really get Google's angle since it's pretty obvious that their AI search sucks. Maybe it's just to impress shareholders?
I mean, they're ruining their search anyways. It's almost unusable at this point, it's like asking for relevant ads and two year old Reddit posts
Is it censorship? Did they decide to just straight up sell SEO? Are websites locking down and blocking their crawlers to stop AI training crawlers?
I legitimately find Bing to be better at this point, but whatever they're doing it's maddening. Even better AI assisted web searches kinda suck because the data fed into them is more of the same
But solid chance they're trying to boost Gemini, which has been a shockingly bad llm for a company that basically wrote the book on AI not too long ago
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This makes sense to me. All other reasons presented sound like wishful thinking that google is still the same company from 2005
I hate this.
DuckDuckGo is pretty easy to switch to. You can go to settings and disable AI chat in it.
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I noticed today that UDM mode for Google is displaying sponsored results now, too...
yeah udm14 getting pretty bad lately. That is why I moved to startpage which is same Google services without AI and sponsored contents
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Yup, this was all the motivation I needed to jump ship from Google, fuck those clowns.
Been using 4get for some time now, I don't think a search engine can get better than this
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Considering how often Google's AI hallucinates some garbage for an answer this is going to be terrible
When I use a web search tool I want to look at the websites themselves. Not having to go through Gemini (the AI not the protocol) telling me what IT thinks I want...
Assuming AGI ever develops and bothers to sift through data. I've no problem with AI as a tool (that is, Dumb AI like we currently have.)
When I'm doing a web search rather than actually calling up Gemini (The AI not the Protocol) I want a WEB SEARCH... that means I am not looking to use AI. I'm wanting to use OI (Organic Intelligence.)
Is there any escape from shitty AI slop in my search results?
What search engines are there that I can use that arent a proxy for one of the big ones? And yes I know about Kagi, I’d prefer open source if possible.
Moving from enshitified closed source to a different closed source that's trying to position itself as user first isn't necessarily bad.
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Which is EXACTLY why I just moved to using Vivaldi browser and StartPage as a search engine. Fuck these guys.
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Of all the sources of truth, why pick auto-complete?
So what happens to the situation of having to pay ad-word rent on your own brand name?
Do we still get that with AI search, or is Google going to give up their golden goose of ad revenue. I'm guessing the adwords feed into the background RAG that influences what the model says.
Do people still use google? I haven't touched it for yonks now. Except GRIS, that still works well.
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I noticed Edge would only show me corporate/authority friendly results recently as well oddly cutting down the number of results I see to a very unnaturally short amount of results.
Deleting it and moving to DuckDuckGo which while the corporate friendly things were still at the top, it at least showed me some opposition results.
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