Google AI Overviews
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- trooperbill
Hi US QBNers - im in the UK and wonder what your initial impressions are of googles changes to the search results?
theyre calling it AI Overviews (formerly SGE - Search Generative Experience)
are you using them or clicking across to the old style web results?
Are you ditching google?
thanks
Me
- cherub0
I saw a youtube video explaining that these um, can't remember the exact term, but these that appear above the normal search results are dependent upon the phrase that u searched for.
It recommended you don't target phrases that have the AI overview, as that steals focus away from the actual search results which is self defeating and only helps google, not you.
I have learned to skip over the AI summary, because our very own utopian pointed out:
google's AI often gives summaries of the wrong answer.
Sometimes I do read them. I'd like to turn them off.
I'm not ditching google but I tried duckduckgo briefly.
- kingsteven1
I'm in the UK but just going to vent that i was buying sanding belts yesterday in B&Q and Google AI popped up with the wrong fucking belt size for my sander and now i'm out 22 quid. I've ditched google search for most things not on my phone until now.
- I'm sorry but this made me lol :)
Ya daft bugger!Nairn - it gets worse nairn, i had the day off work specifically to finish this DIY job so with time on my hands decided to trim my hair... absolutely fucked it hahahkingsteven
- haha, are you me?!Nairn
- guard fell off my clippers mid sideburn manoeuvre and gave myself a zero fade. just been to the barbers to fix it lolkingsteven
- lol, i hate it when that happens. My trimmer thing's old and busted and I have to very-solidly grasp it, and guard, so latter doesn't slip and fuck things up.Nairn
- I'm sorry but this made me lol :)
- hans_glib3
"AI"... you have to be kidding me. the sooner we all remember it's still little more than shitty badly coded machine "learning" (even "learning" is pushing it)the better.
i had to use it for a non emergency appointlent with my doctor the other day, it asked what the problem was, i told it a massive bruise and swelling as a result of being knocked off my bike... it summarised by saying "would you like to talk to someone about your rash?"
fucking shit is what it is
- uan1
I use search.brave.com to ask perplexity for answers.
I use shopping.google.com to find stuff I need to buy.
and I use qbn and x to find interesting links to 'surf' the web.
- i_monk0
I'm guessing uBlock has figured out how to block them again, because I only saw them briefly last week.
- Nairn0
Occasionally useful, for daft questions, but I resent its existence - it's a better but worse version of the quick answers they've offered for years now, fucking up internet search to find independent websites the answers originally stemmed from.
No bueno.
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As for the 'AI' Tag, I get it. I know it's not right, but it is a step beyond Old Search that has a high level of 'smartness' underpinning it: It is the use of an agent to go out and 'think' about a massively-collated response.
- jonny_quest_lives0
- i use the bye bye one that's just me thoughjonny_quest_lives
- yuekit3
Anyone else feel like Google has been getting worse and worse when it comes to specific technical questions like looking up how to code something?
A few years ago it felt like it could read my mind and somehow delivered the result I needed...now I get useless spam and Stack Overflow posts from a decade ago.
As much as I hate to say it ChatGPT now does a better job in some cases.
- i used chatgpt for coding. had to figure out how to get good and clean code in as less iterations (prompts) as possible. the moment i got that it was very good.renderedred