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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Via @[email protected]

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K." "What about Kenya?" "Kenya suck deez nuts?"

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Brave has a similar answer

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can confirm, still happening 🤦‍♂️

So what are your bets, when will Google kill Google?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How popular cuz I've never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I've never heard it before, but it sounds about standard for a deez nuts joke so I wouldn't be surprised if it was popular in some subreddit Bard was trained on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

So if you search for something in Google, you Google(d) it

If I use DuckDuckGo... Is it duck it? If it's not it should be after all the years of autocorrect changing fuck it to duck it, I think society has earned this one.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

hasn't been like it was for years now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bing gives me the right answer: that list of countries.

What an amazing time we live in. Where Bing is better than Google. Though Bing does have AI, I think you have to scroll up (past the top) or directly search with it so far.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That is why some people are building new search engines as admarust.net a full p2p search engine able to index IPFS content. https://github.com/Mubelotix/admarus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

i use ddg and kagi for search

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