I just googled something and Google put its AI summary top, which incorrectly used a Facebook post - misinterpreting it. The Facebook post itself was an AI summary of a user post - which AI had also misinterpreted. The result is the Google answer was just total bollocks.
10/10 no notes.
To do internet searches without getting that annoying #AIsummary (which usually makes for one more useless thing to scroll through to get to the links you want to see, and which wastes a large amount of electricity every time), you can add a simple bit of text at the beginning or end of your search query.
Type “hyphen AI” at the start or end of any search query to not get that annoying AI summary at the top of your search results (which usually makes for one more useless thing to scroll through to get to the links you want to see, and which wastes data center electricity every time).
For example:
-ai Names of all four Beatles
**OR**
Names of all four Beatles -ai
#AIprompts #GoogleTricks #AIsummaries #AI #GoogleSearching #GoogleSearch #InternetSearch #SearchEngines #Searches #Googling #AvoidingAI #NoAI
@AnneTheWriter1 @thomkennon @GossiTheDog Or, even better, change your default search engine! #Startpage, for example, gives you non-personalised results retrieved from Google and comes without AI. According to their privacy policy they don't track every search you do, unlike #Google!
Remember: If you use Google, any identifiers like a login to your Google Account will be used by Google to link all of your search prompts to you! And most of Android users are logged in to their Google account on their device.
#Metager can also be recommended in case you are willing to pay a small amount. And there are even more search engines...
For more info (in German) visit
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/#suchmaschine
"Oh and did you click the little đź”— icon to see what the source was? No, I don't trust the answer until I check that and you shouldn't too. What if it's a joke post on reddit that's taken seriously?"
@gbargoud @GossiTheDog
Yes was testing that as a possible pointer to real authoritative content - or likely not!
The thing this bullshit eclipses is the authority of the crowd we've been accessing for 20+ years w/the 1000 ranking factors from the search algos.
They're destroying their product to save their investment in compute.
The good news it's also a sign collapse is near & it will be ugly & painful & then there's the other side of chaos we get to rebuild our share worlds together. : )
I don't think I have successfully gotten anyone to do that who wouldn't have done it already but I'm definitely going to keep trying
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