Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview
What if we made a search engine so good that our company name became the verb for searching? And then — get this — we replaced the search engine with a robot with a concussion? Google is innovating…
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I downvoted out of instinct.
I’ve already stopped using Google because of this bullshit. Fuck ‘em. AI already gives biased responses because you just can’t give a short summary of complex issues provided by a variety of voices. True knowledge arises from complexity.
I just started using duckduckgo because it's default in librefox, which I also just started using.
Feels different, I'm going to spend the effort getting used to it.
I’m kinda digging Kagi. Paid, but there’s an anonymization option that seems to have some basis in reality. I find the search results good with a clear tail into nonsense, so you can tell when actual results have run out. YMMV
