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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JoBo@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social

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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[–] prey169@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Brave has a similar answer

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[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

[–] jampacked@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How popular cuz I've never heard of it.

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[–] Brendan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Here’s Kagi

[–] Z4rK@lemmy.world 5 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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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can confirm, still happening 🤦‍♂️

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

[–] Neato@kbin.social 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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[–] ittu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

hasn't been like it was for years now.

[–] Aelorius@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

That is why some people are building new search engines as admarust.net a full p2p search engine able to index IPFS content. https://github.com/Mubelotix/admarus

[–] ox0r@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

Metaverse part 2

[–] alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Just checked on Kagi. It doesn't provide quick answer to this query, but that weird EmergentMind website is #1 on results. This is prolly because Kagi is taking some of the results from Google index, but good thing is, I can just block this website using lenses.

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