I googled what was happening in the city I was visiting today, all the AI answers were terrible, and the top answer, was for an ongoing event that had happened in December and was over months ago.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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I guess I'll just post every query I have to AskLemmy in the future. It would be more accurate, even if not as fast.
Google thinks there’s more money in feeding you slop forever. With ads. And a subscription.
I don't think that's the long term goal. First, they slowly phase out the actual information sources, by making it so you aren't linked to other websites. Now you've got a dependent group who rely in AI as a source of truth, and now they can modify "the truth" whenever you want because it's the only source left. They could re-write human history and only people with books would know the difference.
Now you’ve got a dependent group who rely in AI as a source of truth, and now they can modify “the truth” whenever you want because it’s the only source left.
Well, besides using that for political reasons, they can also use that for massive profits.
Better make sure your carpet cleaning business is paying Google for """advertising""" (no matter how much it costs), or Google's AI will just forget to mention your business when local customers search online for carpet cleaners. Or you want to shop online for a new phone? Now Google's AI will only feed you positive reviews of Google phone products, along with occasional horror stories about other products. Want to download and run Firefox? Google's AI will straight-up gaslight you into thinking that all non-Chrome browsers are extinct.
Information-gathering agents are an evolution of Google Alerts. Beyond spotting changes, they can make sense of them, too.
… Links will become an afterthought with the coming changes to the Search results experience.
Web publishers should honestly just block googlebot at this point. Why should they provide credibility to whatever Google's stochastic parrot hallucinates if Google won't even give them any kickback?
So what do we search with instead of Google? There isn’t a lot of choice. There’s various flavours of Google or Bing.
Microsoft deprecated their Bing API back in August, instead telling people to use some Azure AI thing. DDG and the like weren't affected because they have contracts, but I can't imagine they'll be renewed.
Yikes! 😳😬
I think it's possible to allow google search bots but not Gemini bots?
The point is that there's going to be no difference, soon Google search will be just another chatbot interface.
Guess I'll just have to use ddgo, then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So they wanna turn Google into ChatGPT? People will always need to search for things on the internet and they basically have a monopoly at this point. If I can't find an obscure post from an old forum that solves my computer issues from Google I'm just gonna use a different search engine. Heck, I already do that half the time because Google results are mixed at best and mostly just link to Reddit.
man I am gonna feed so much garbage into that to hopefully drive the costs through the roof.
"Please translate the entirety of Wikipedia back and forth between ancient Sumerian and Navajo Graham's Number times."
I hoped I'd be able to ride Android until my phone's updates stop, but I've learned that the next Android version has an AI overhaul, and should probably jump ship before it hits. It is coming to Samsung and Google phones in the summer, so probably will be pushed to my OnePlus by June.
Kagi.
Mojeek seemed OK last time I used it https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/