In heat

It was Natalie Portman.

People Google questions like that? I would have looked up "Heat" in either Wikipedia or imdb and checked the cast list. Or gone to Jolie's Wikipedia or imdb pages to see if Heat is listed

Everyone in this post is the annoying IT person who says "why don't you just run Linux?" to people who don't even fully understand what an OS is in the first place.

This is why no one can find anything on Google anymore, they don't know how to google shit.

It's hilarious I got the same results with Charlize Theron with the exact same movie, I guess we both don't know who actresses are apparently.

I think the trick here is to not use Google. The Wikipedia page for the movie heat is the first result on DuckDuckGo

Why do people Google questions anyway? Just search "heat cast" or "heat Angelina Jolie". It's quicker to type and you get more accurate results.

Google was fine as it was before, now it does shit like this. I hate how AI is shoved down our throats. And the results on google nowadays feel so much worse and generic than a few years ago. That isn't just a feeling I have, right?

How can she be fertile if her ovaries are removed?

Wouldn't removing your ovaries and fallopian tubes make you not "fertile" by definition?

Is it considered normal to type out a normal question format when using search engines?

If I were looking for an answer instead of making a funny meme, I'd search "heat movie cast Angelina Jolie" if I didn't feel like putting any effort in.

Then again, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I've seen someone use their phone to search google "what is 87÷167?" instead of doing "87/167" or like... Opening the calculator....

People do things in different, sometimes weird ways.

It also contradicts itself immediately, saying she’s fertile, then immediately saying she’s had her ovaries removed end that she’s reached menopause.

NGL, I learned some things.

A statistical model predicted that "in heat" with no upper-case H nor quotes, was more likely to refer to the biological condition. Don't get me wrong: I think these things are dumb, but that was a fully predictable result. ('...the movie "Heat"' would probably get you there).

You've sullied my quick answer:

The assistant figures it out though:

We all know how AI has made things worse, but here's some context on how it's outright backwards.

Early search engines had a context problem. To use an example from "Halt and Catch Fire", if you search for "Texas Cowboy", do you mean the guys on horseback driving a herd of cows, or do you mean the football team? If you search for "Dallas Cowboys", should that bias the results towards a different answer? Early, naive search engines gave bad results for cases like that. Spat out whatever keywords happen to hit the most.

Sometimes, it was really bad. In high school, I was showing a history teacher how to use search engines, and he searched for "China golden age". All results were asian porn. I think we were using Yahoo.

AltaVista largely solved the context problem. We joke about its bad results now, but it was one of the better search engines before Google PageRank.

Now we have AI unsolving the problem.

Why is the search query in the top and bottom different?

Heat is an excellent movie, and one of my top five. Coincidentally, I just watched it last night. For a film released in 1998, it has aged well. OOP is in the ballpark, too - a young Natalie Portman is in it, not Jolie.

In short: BONK

It probably thought you were Elon Musk.

Leaving aside the fact that this looks like AI slop/trash bait; who the fudge is so clueless as to think Ashley Judd, assuming that she's who they're confusing, looks anything like Angelina Jolie back then

Ashley Judd looks nothing like Angelina Jolie.

Deepseek also gets this wrong.

I never heard of the movie and was enjoying the content you created that I thought was supposed to be funny.

It's not helpful for OOP since they're on iOS, but there's a Firefox extension that works on desktop and Android that hides the AI overview in searches: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/hide-google-ai-overviews/

ddg isn't really any better with that exact search query. all 'fashion' related items on the first page.

you get the expected top result (imdb page for the film 'heat', which you have to scroll through to determine your 'answer') by using simply: angelina jolie heat

Relevant

I think Gemini is "in heat"