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‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI (www.theguardian.com)
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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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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Google was done a long time before AI came about. I quit using it as a primary search engine probably 5 or more years ago.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

People ask me how I like DDG and I’m like. It’s better than google these days. Not because DDG got better, but because google got worse.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

So, Bing

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

because they found out people would click the next page a few times before giving up, so they started making their results worse, so they could get more page views and more ads shown.