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Rod Hilton Aug 15, 2023

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?"

Google Search is over.

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Da Nobs Aug 15, 2023

@rodhilton
works for me...
but probably because I use the "german" google

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Artemis Aug 15, 2023

@nobs
It may also vary person to person. What with search histories and all, we aren't all given the same results anyway. Which is possibly more insidious because some people will be given bullshit answers and others won't even see that happening.
@rodhilton

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Damon L. Wakes

@artemis @nobs @rodhilton Thanks for highlighting this. I get the impression a lot of people (especially in these replies) don't realise that other people won't necessarily see the same results as them even for the exact same query.