You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode

Does EVERY axis in life have to be fucked up at the same time?

Can we have one thing that is just doing ok?

Government - fucked.

Education - fucked.

Healthcare - fucked.

Environment - fucked.

Housing - fucked.

Societal and Social Cohesion - fucked.

Wealth Inequality - fucked.

Personal Technological Autonomy - fucked, and under continuous attack.

Technological Enshittification - Running like gangbusters. So really - fucked.

Damn, someone give me some kind of ladder to climb out of this pit of despair.

Technofascists really benefit from certain kinds of information being inaccessible…

I am no longer feeling lucky

The future is coming and it sure looks like garbage. I have long since left Google behind.

Hmm, in theory I don't have a problem with an AI telling me the answer to my question or whatever I'm searching for - but this isn't a web search. If I'm actually searching for a particular page or context, then I want to be able to do that.

These are two entirely different things, and if Google goes down this route they aren't a search engine anymore - they are an LLM provider.

Sounds cool, can’t wait!

Why is everything shit

AI is over hyped and doesn’t need to be shoved in our faces. Ugh.

Stick to SEARCH, not making shit up (euphemistically called "hallucinating").

Is this for human beings, or is it for Google to show their investors to prove that AI is totally going to revolutionize something eventually?

Screw Google either way, I'm not going to use their search engine either way, but this doesn't feel like a product they are genuinely committed to releasing. Maybe I'm wrong, and in that case, screw them even more.

Who asked for this?

Wait, google does searches now too? Wow they have a service for everything.

How many cases of "You should eat at least one small rock per day" AI bullshit does Google think is acceptable for production deployment?

startpage. you're welcome.

it's also not us owned or based.

The model uses "advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal capabilities"...

Well, LLM's are incapable of actually doing the first two, so we're already off to a great start.

I don't think it's much in the way of hyperbole to say that if they make this the default or worse, only search output option then this will be the thing that literally destroys the company.

No one except idiotic boardroom denizens actually wants this. Google failing to provide actual search results is the singular one and only thing that could actually get users to switch away from using it -- and not do that thing where they just grumble and bitch and moan but keep using it anyway. And if no one is searching on Google then nobody is seeing ads on Google, which means Google will not be selling ads.

I will laugh so hard if this happens.

I don't need to care. I stopped using Google search months ago.

Dear Google,

Literally no one wants this.

I hate this.

searxng

Thanks Google, I hate it. At least the udm=14 trick and website still works, at least until google decides to stop supporting that feature. Definitely going to be using that more and more if this becomes the default google experience.

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I mean their search results have gone to absolute shit anyway, the AI is probably better at this point.

Ok, but why should I go to Google for ai answers when I can get the same from openai, other models or even local installations without all the ads?

When I use a web search tool I want to look at the websites themselves. Not having to go through Gemini (the AI not the protocol) telling me what IT thinks I want...

Assuming AGI ever develops and bothers to sift through data. I've no problem with AI as a tool (that is, Dumb AI like we currently have.)

When I'm doing a web search rather than actually calling up Gemini (The AI not the Protocol) I want a WEB SEARCH... that means I am not looking to use AI. I'm wanting to use OI (Organic Intelligence.)

thinking google is about offering you a quality search at this point is like thinking facebook is about improving your social experience. they both started like that and that's how they hooked people up. but they have their own interests now. those interests revolve around affecting how people act and think. one central thing they need to do to fulfil those interests is controlling what people see and know... and that's very hard to do when this pesky external content generated by other that is hard to control gets into way...

Been using Ecosia for months now. DuckDuckGo and Startpage before that. I'm pretty happy with Ecosia search results, can't complain.

Considering how often Google's AI hallucinates some garbage for an answer this is going to be terrible

Is there any escape from shitty AI slop in my search results?

What search engines are there that I can use that arent a proxy for one of the big ones? And yes I know about Kagi, I’d prefer open source if possible.

I don't really get Google's angle since it's pretty obvious that their AI search sucks. Maybe it's just to impress shareholders?

Kagi. But you free loaders would have to pay for something.

Oh wow sounds great, can I get in line now to not use it?

I noticed today that UDM mode for Google is displaying sponsored results now, too...

Embrace, extend, extinguish, but now it’s Google doing it to the World Wide Web.

Yup, this was all the motivation I needed to jump ship from Google, fuck those clowns.

...hmm that's kind of shitty and it uses ten times more energy! Let's go full enshitification!

Can it be worse than the sanitised results they give you now?

Which is EXACTLY why I just moved to using Vivaldi browser and StartPage as a search engine. Fuck these guys.

Of all the sources of truth, why pick auto-complete?

https://www.startpage.com/

Do people still use google? I haven't touched it for yonks now. Except GRIS, that still works well.

I noticed Edge would only show me corporate/authority friendly results recently as well oddly cutting down the number of results I see to a very unnaturally short amount of results.

Deleting it and moving to DuckDuckGo which while the corporate friendly things were still at the top, it at least showed me some opposition results.

Alphabet/Google needs to fire their CEO. He’s an obvious idiot, not good with employees, not good with investors, and not good at lobbying. That’s like 99% of a CEO’s job. Just get rid of him and Google’s stock price will probably jump 20%.

I’m so glad I switched to Kagi. The writing was on the wall once they started rolling out the AI suggestions wide.

This is exactly why I'm working so hard to eradicate the verb "to google" from my vocabulary. I switched to DuckDuckGo (which then started providing AI summaries, but allowed an easy opt-out).

Been using 4get for some time now, I don't think a search engine can get better than this

I didn't expect this. You mean it doesn't have ads? All I tend to get for hits on Google are paid search results anyway. Surely they'll soon bring some ad links into these results.

this sounds like what Google wanted to be since its inception: ask a question, get an answer

somewhere along the journey, the reality of needing to make money drove the enshitification of search results: ask a question, get offers to sell you an answer

this seems like a step in a better direction

i haven't used Google for search in years. duck duck go ftw

So what happens to the situation of having to pay ad-word rent on your own brand name?

Do we still get that with AI search, or is Google going to give up their golden goose of ad revenue. I'm guessing the adwords feed into the background RAG that influences what the model says.

Microsoft doesn't want to end up like Google. Fuck that company! One way you can tell is on outlook...which I use with a proper 10' pole on my work computer only. Fuck no, never at home ever ever.... Have you ever received an email on outlook and just saw the title or maybe you read halfway through and got interrupted?.... Where the fuck is it now? Its gone! Sure you could go email by email and try to be your own search engine. But its no use, whatever Tim was talking about with the over pressured valve at the Central boiler, blah blah you should let people know to exit the blah blah, otherwise 3rd degree bur...yeah that shit's gone. Might as well write your own email to finish the story. See, Microsoft doesn't want to be like Google at all. On my 14.9992G full gmail, I was always able to go find out what Amazon offer I got 8 years ago. Look 404! Yeah that's it! 404! With Gemini spying on my every move that's gotta stop. It's gonna try to learn my porn habits. I'm gonna go search for all the wrong porn on purpose.

And we still pay the vig to AdWords or does all my money go to LinkedIn now?

Alright should I switch to Lyca or HotBot?