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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Just give me back the results from the 00’s era of google. They need to go backwards not ““forwards””.

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Well now what am I supposed to switch to after DuckDuckGo didn’t give relevant results?

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I just today spun up my own searxng docker container and I’m pretty excited to start using it!

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I got a Google Gemini “text message” in Google messages today. I couldn’t find a way to turn it off, so I just blocked and reported it as spam lol

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Normal search results are already littered with useless ai generated seo optimized crap. It’s got to the point where sometimes it’s quicker to learn the knowledge you seek the old fashion way: by reading books.

Enshitification must lose.

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Goddammit! Am I gonna have to relearn that Dewey decimal crap?

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🤓 Well you see actually we trained all our models off all historical text written by humans so it will be more human and you don’t have to read again

Ive seen akin to this sentiment online and its very baffling

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Oh, they trained their ais off of that all right… And then filtered out all the stuff they didn’t like such as useful information.

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This is how google starts telling people that brawndo is what plants crave.

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I just assume that these people never have any problems that they have to solve personally. Otherwise they would be frustrated by the inability to find necessary information. They are either rich or children or both.

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I’m happy to have my own SearxNG instance…

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