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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't think it would work, because surely they'd patched it by now, but:

While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I got the same!

I've been using ecosia instead of Google for a while and I like it.

Edit: ecosia gives you the alphabetical list

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ecosia and ddg are bing frontends, you'll get the same results