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‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Corvidae@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.

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[–] sealhaslupus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

searxng in a container or public instance if need be.

or try a different engine like marginalia.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

you have to scroll maybe 1000-1800px now to get to results (past ai and sponsored results) - shit is trash - searxng good enough; just annoying to maintain sometimes when needed in a pinch m. degoog not bad either

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users

Are you motherfucking kidding me with that? Is this some kind of satire?

[–] aSaabD00d@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shortly after the change I even noticed that some of the sites used to make/hallucinate the AI summaries weren't even on the first 3 pages of links aggregated. They existed ONLY inside the tiny icons on the bottom right of the overview/hallucination where it was being cited.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Many times that AI summary is just something that is in the first two or three links anyway

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[–] Corvidae@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you can figure out how to deny google the right to script on your browser, AI Overviews will disappear.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

If you include a swear word in the search you won't get an Ai overview.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The NoGoogleAi firefox extension solves this.

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