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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Brave has a similar answer

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How popular cuz I've never heard of it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can confirm, still happening 🤦‍♂️

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Alas, it has the emergent mind answer ranked fairly high still, and when search result was set to my country it was actually ranked highest.

Also, if you use Quick Answer, you’ll get same wrong answer:

Quick Answer There are no countries in Africa whose name starts fully with the letter "K". While Kenya is the closest match, its name does not start solely with "K" [1]. All of the African countries' names were reviewed across multiple sources and none began completely with the letter "K" [2][3][4].

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

hasn't been like it was for years now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Works perfectly fine for me

"Kenya. Kenya is a country located in East Africa. It shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia."

The. First two actual results links are : Countries that start with "K" and Category:Countries in Africa

Tested in both English and French

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I searched "Countries in africa that start with the letter K" and got:

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.

But if I search for "African countries that start with the letter K", I get:

Kenya. Kenya is a country located in East Africa. It shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. The country is home to dozens of national parks and reserves and diverse wildlife such as lions, elephants, and buffalo.

It seems to be very specific, but I think that makes it worse.

Edit: I tried the same two, but in Swedish and both yielded a list:

K.

Kamerun.

Kap Verde.

Kenya.

Komorerna.

Kongo-Brazzaville (Republiken Kongo)

Kongo-Kinshasa (Demokratiska republiken Kongo)

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