This is certified antique because Google used to give you decent results, maybe even some obscure but highly specialised website dedicated to nothing but your question. Nowadays, you'll get so much AI slop that you might as well go back to the pre-internet days, ask your uncle, and just believe whatever misinformation he gives you.
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You can tell this is an old meme because it's been a long time ago when Google had good answers for your questions.
And didnt just point to Reddit threads of people asking the question (now it's AI generated answers pulled from reddit threads)
Block the AI allucinated answers if you don't want to die for food poisoning or something like that.
You can also use Duck Duck Go (And disable the AI function in the menu).
DDG is also getting worse, AI answers or no.
Try anything but Google. Not only do their results suck now, they are evil to boot.
I went to search something up on Google Scholar the other day, and even that has some AI shit injected into it now.
Can we please just nuke the internet and start from scratch?
I just don't understand how an image search for anything gives you maybe 20 results, 17 of which are irrelevant. You used to get a hundred relevant images for literally anything.
They created that amp; service that stopped you from accessing websites in one tap; the arguably first commercial AI service, image object recognition, is garbage; it doesn't reverse search people anymore; AI overview shows up on 19/20 searches.
Could probably get a better experience using Google if you use a device only capable of 2G, GPRS or TLS 1.1.
Still way better results them any other search engine.
Maybe, if you don't care about privacy or ethics. I don't have any trouble using other engines and finding what I want.
Sort of. I've switched to Kagi and I mostly like it. They clearly don't have as much of the internet indexed but they have most of it and the stuff they do have is properly searchable.
Google has more stuff but they hide the actual result under a pile of garbage.
Sure to why I search, technical, industrial, etc. There really isn't a rival. And honestly, scroll past the first half page, you get better results then any other engine. I've tried swapping to others, but it takes to long, or you just can't find correct answers.
I've had better results using StartPage than Google for the past 3 years or so.
Fuck relying on corporations for anything including information. I'd rather just rely on the people I know.
One of the reasons I'm not really friends with a dude is he'd ask questions, I'd go look up the answers, and then he wouldn't read them.
Eventually I was like, "if I go look this up are you going to read it? Or ask follow up questions?"
He was like, "is it going to be bite sized?"
I said, "I don't think I can answer your complicated politics and history question in a way that's all of fast complete and accurate."
He admitted no. He wasn't going to engage further. So I stopped looking stuff up for him, and we don't talk much anymore.
Sorry to hear that, I empathize with you there. The process of friend selection can be a tough one. Sucks he only wanted your research abilities, but that means they must be pretty good!
But yeah that would drive me insane. Feeling ignored or silenced is one of the shittiest things, I wouldn't keep someone like that around either.
I like to interact with people by asking questions that can be looked up easily because I need the dopamine it gives when I get that little notification number in my inbox
Me too and I can spread misinformation
Does not work for me. I'm a dev, and I document what I do. If there is a feature in a project of mine, there is a document on it.
Still sales and project people drop in and ask me things they could easily read up...
Hook a Brotherrrrr up! Wtf?
Yes, screw human interaction! /s
Right? lmgtfy has always been kinda rude. But much more so now, when talking to a human on the Internet is getting harder, and search engines barely work. If you don't know you can just ignore it or say that you don't know.
Or best case, you can use seemingly dead-end questions to further the conversation. "Oh, I just looked it up and I'm surprised to see it's actually ___. Now that makes me wonder ___."