• orclev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like Google is trying to speedrun killing their search service. It was already significantly shittier lately just because of all the sponsored bullshit and SEO spam, but this rush to cash in on the AI fad has really destroyed the last utility it had.

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      1 year ago

      The other day I wanted to know when the first day of summer officially was. So I searched “first day of summer 2024”…before it would give me a big bold answer(June 20tg if anyone is curious)… Now I got a full page of car ads for model year 2024

  • whenigrowup356@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Am I missing something? I only see the AI overview as an option after clicking the “try new features” lab logo. Are some versions of Google search forcing this feature currently?

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    1 year ago

    Google sux, I used to love DDG, and the they stopped indexing Yandex which imo made it just as bad as google