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Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt in (www.engadget.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you're in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google's generative AI technology, used to appear only if you've opted into the Search Generative Experience(SGE) in the Search Labs platform. Now, according to Search Engine Land, Google has started adding the experience on a "subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the US." And that is why you could be getting Google's experimental AI-generated section even if you haven't switched it on.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago (3 children)

All the talk about how much computing power and electricity AI uses, and then Google and Bing just run it for every (most? many? some?) search.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll be looking for a uBlockOrigin filter when it hits for me

I try to avoid google search when I can, but this should solve the problem for the rest of the time

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Plenty of other search engine that need your attention 🫠

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Oh, Google though their search results weren't crappy enough, so the decided to make them even worse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It should be illegal to force people to use generative ai to do things it is not needed for.
Seeing Microsoft's plans to add ai to windows was the last straw that made me change to linux.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nobody forces you to use Google, and frankly we should all take a little more time to degoogle our lives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Startpage is what I use at the moment and it’s been fine. Am trying to decouple from the googs too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Is amusing that bing moved their AI results to the bottom of the page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

They always blocked VPNs so I didn't even bother to try it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I'll add it to my list of reasons not to use google

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No they won't, because I don't use their shady as fuck services

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Well, you aren't a Google search user, so you won't get it. The headline addressed that.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Duck duck gone.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bing does that shit and it's annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Ecosia added ai chat which I think runs on the same thing as copilot. I don't see the point though and would like to be able to hide the ai chat option.

[–] [email protected] 173 points 7 months ago (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Google Search was so good when it came out. Complete polar opposite to the cluttered and bloated Yahoo Search. Haven't really using it for years now because the search results became worse and worse, especially when that rounded edge theme came along.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (4 children)

oh that's that same shit that bing does that ends up filling the top quarter of my search results page with useless chatGPT garbage that doesn't help my search query (both my employer and my school have forced edge+bing as the standard browser and it makes me want to die)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

you have my condolences :)

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