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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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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] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Constantly forgetting I changed all my default search engines to DuckDuckGo.

Went to Google to test this...what a trash website.

Pushed me to download the app.

Pops up a recommendation to download Chrome.

Has clutter on the default search search form.

Looks more like yahoo than the google of yore

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you browsing in? I use Firefox and never get any of those popups when I use Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the mobile experience, which makes it all the worse.

It's popping banners like a shit news site.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm using Firefox on Android and am not seeing anything like you're mentioning.