Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116281343752661759

I saw this in the wild. The Google discover feed showed me a headline for a 4h-old Guardian article where the Google link/headline said the Iranian leader Khamenei had been killed by a US bomb strike and I thought "Wow! Already? He's only just taken over for his dead dad!"

And that really would have been news except that wasn't what the article was about at all. It was about the US not knowing who to negotiate with now that they've overturned the anthill. It only referenced the killing of the _elder_ Khamenei at the start of the war a few weeks ago, and that reference was more than 3/4 of the way through the article, in background information. I was gob-smacked that Google would do such a thing. It's awful, a full betrayal.

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der.hans 23h ago

@mogul Who was the guy fired for faking on scene reporting a few years ago?

Maybe we should use his name for google searches

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mcSlibinas 23h ago

@mogul tag: #evilGoogle

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Brian Campbell 23h ago

@mogul Alright, that's it. I'm changing my default search to DuckDuckGo. I've been reluctantly staying with Google because Google still mostly provides better results, but if they're going to start editing titles, that's just too much. Let's see if this sticks, but I've switched my browser default.

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staringatclouds 4h ago

@unlambda @mogul try https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

DuckDuckGo

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adingbatponder

👾18h ago

@mogul And so in one simple step Google destroys its entire market. Faked news from #google itself.
Google could position itself to be BBC like "authority" for web information retrieval and use AI to catch out fakes and junk. No. It does the opposite and contributes to the destruction of the internet as a source of facts.

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