Google Search now has an option to search the "web," which is not the default anymore.
  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    641·
    6 months ago

    Google is not showing the web anymore, it’s showing it’s own content now, stolen from the web.

    People don’t even leave their site now with Ai results, that Google controls and can modify how they want.

    Not sure what to do about this. The general public will be completely lost in Google.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    6 months ago

    Best part…

    The web filter is in that stupid filter carousel, and it’s just off of the screen on mobile. So you have to swipe left from the top of the screen to view web results.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The feature, renamed “AI Overview,” is here now, and it feels like the biggest change to Google Search ever.

    When Google decides you have an AI-appropriate query, it now takes a lot of scrolling to see web results.

    Page three is the bottom half of the video box, then a “Discussions and forums” section with Reddit and Quora posts.

    Google claims “that the links included in AI Overviews get more clicks than if the page had appeared as a traditional web listing for that query,” but that’s honestly hard to believe.

    When Google takes the content from one or several sites, rearranges it with AI, and displays it, in full, at the top of the results, why would any user click through?

    Assuming AI overview works the same way, Google has not said how it expects something like this to be sustainable for web publishers.

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  • 0oWow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I’m guessing these are changes for chrome users? I haven’t seen any of those new AI changes. Granted I don’t use Google primarily, and was only testing a few times.

  • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
    432·
    6 months ago

    This article is easily falsifiable bullshit. Just ask google a question and you’ll get the same kind of search results as you always have.

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      271·
      6 months ago

      same kind of search results as you always have.

      Funny, I don’t remember getting top news stories, preview links for videos, or images when I did a Google search in the early 2000s…

      • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
        22·
        6 months ago

        No, but i do remember one of the options on the front page always being porn no matter what you searched. My middle school wanted us to use Yahoo search instead of google for pictures because it wouldn’t show Rule 34 content.

        • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
          52·
          6 months ago

          I think you mean SafeSearch > off.

          Yes, you would pretty much be guaranteed to get a helping of porn no matter what.

          • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Back in 2006 there wasn’t too much in the way of doing a safe search, at least not that any of our teachers knew about.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      I’ve been running a kind of long experiment over the years. I search the same word every now and then. Watching the top results change has been fascinating. It’s gone from definitions to ads, and now it automatically tries to link into Google maps too. The original top results aren’t even visible without scrolling anymore.