It’s usually just a copy of the Wikipedia page anyway, so I just follow that link. Utterly pointless.
It used to be you use a search engine to find places that have more about the thing you searched for.
Now it’s just, “The thing you searched for is this. You probably already knew that, but fuck you. Now that you’ve made it this far and gotten nothing, scroll down for some clickticles mentioning the thing. Keep going, keep going, keeeep going… There. This site may be a resource of stuff on that thing if you wanna try, but don’t be surprised if you click back after a moment because the algorithm is basically fucked for actual searching. Have you tried Page 5? Yeah, it’s full of unrelated shit. It looks like Pages 1 and 2 are all that the entire internet has on that thing, probably.”
Let’s be honest, many thing broke the internet, but Google was a big contributor to its current state and my god does it suck now. Why do we even still call them “browsers”?
Have you tried Page 5? Yeah, it’s full of unrelated shit. It looks like Pages 1 and 2 are all that the entire internet has on that thing, probably.
This is so real. You’re lucky if you even get anything useful on page 1, but anything beyond it is completely useless, unrelated stuff. And it isn’t just Google.
Every time i see an AI summary, i give it a thumbs down and say « answer is incorrect / misleading ».
unless, of course, the answer actually IS wrong: then i give it an enthusiastic thumbs up
Easy fix, stop using Google search!
What do you recommend?
Waterfox defaults to startpage out of the box, but I think duckduckgo is the most “mainstream” alternative
Switching out your default search engine away from google is such an easy step to take that has a massive impact on how much google can spy on you. It should go without saying that chrome is obvious spyware
Startpage and kagi have been closest to the golden age of search for me (2004-12 ish)
Brave search does also have AI, but it doesn’t seem annoying, and you have to expand it yourself to see it. It isn’t shoved down your throat.
Having an AI overview is handy to have around when you actually want it. On Brave it’s just available. Also it doesn’t tend to hallucinate what isn’t supported in the search.
Maybe Brave is using a summary model and google is using a retro-fitted chat model. So theirs ends up opinionated and wants to share extra facts. But I can only speculate.
Kagi is a nice substitute of google, not free, though. As fle me, their basic 300 searches a month ia enough, even though i search a lot for DD links and homework.
you can use a proxy like 4get!
I cannot get Normie’s off google and it drives me insane. They’re all walking around parrotting incorrect AI answers. Co workers are doing it too.
I hate humans, man.
uBlock origin with AI Blocklist. Works like a charm.
Thanks! I was just planning on just just checking it out, but when I saw that I could add it to uBlock with a couple clicks, I went ahead and did it.
may i introduce you to my friend noai.duckduckgo.com
How much longer will it take for no AI DDG to go back to being the default again?
at least ddg search assist is tolerable since it’s unobtrusive and sits behind a click
to add:
In Firefox, go to Settings>Search, scroll down and add it to the list of search engines with this url:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25sedit: /?q=%s is the right ending for the url, no idea why it adds a 25 every time I send the text ugh
That way, you can set it as your browser search engine and use it from your top search bar.
if you have the search bar in your toolbar, you can also use: https://mycroftproject.com/install.html?id=123469&basename=ddg_noai&icontype=ico&name=DuckDuckGo+-+no+AI
The whole reason I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo on all devices, but there’s also the fact the google page is heavy as fuck and takes too long to load because of the AI bloatware
All of these comments are AI generated.
I go to hug my wife for comfort. She too is AI
Begging anyone else here with parents above the age of 50 to help me convince my parents to stop taking the AI overview at face value. I’ve explained to them calmly 100 times how the AI overview can and has been known to be inaccurate at times and that further reading should be done when using it but they just act like I’m some paranoid luddite and blow me off. I wouldn’t care nearly as much if it was just random stuff that doesn’t matter but they use it for medical information frequently. My dad is LITERALLY a medical professional and I’m a med student. It shouldn’t have to come to this. I want to bash my head into a wall. Please help.
I run NoScript or GNUJS blocker. That 100% stops AI search summaries.
I don’t agree. But not for the reason you might think.
The regular search results on Google are so bad that sometimes the AI overview yields better results.
Lately though, I’ve been using Bing.
What is that weird watermark?
Use startpage or searxng! Or kagi
Adding -ai to the search seems to work if you can’t install a uBlock filter or NoScript.
