Google Search going all in on A.I.

[Free]

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

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The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over.

At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.

Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.

Free, the first time she used Google: This is cool.

Free, the last time she uses Google: This used to be cool.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

techcrunch.com

Free, the first time she used Google: This is cool.

Free, the last time she uses Google: This used to be cool.

Free, next: How do you change this to Duck Duck Go? Ah, yes, there it is. *click*

 

[Free]

Free, next: How do you change this to Duck Duck Go? Ah, yes, there it is. *click*

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I really wonder what the hell they are thinking with this. I get that most companies are interested in AI to replace workers, but I can't see how on Earth anyone would think this was a great idea.

 

[Noodles]

I really wonder what the hell they are thinking with this. I get that most companies are interested in AI to replace workers, but I can't see how on Earth anyone would think this was a great idea.

Look.

We spent a hojillion bazillion dollars on AI and it sucks but we have a God Complex so lets ignore this and everyone will use this digital life we created if they want to or not.

-- Average Google

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I really wonder what the hell they are thinking with this. I get that most companies are interested in AI to replace workers, but I can't see how on Earth anyone would think this was a great idea.

Google's intent is to own all of the information in the world and make its chatbot eventually the only portal by which you can access any of it. With no list of search results at all anymore, even SEO is completely moot - the only way to get your site any visibility will be to pay Google to allow its chatbot mention it to people who ask the right question.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Google's intent is to own all of the information in the world and make its chatbot eventually the only portal by which you can access any of it. With no list of search results at all anymore, even SEO is completely moot - the only way to get your site any visibility will be to pay Google to allow its chatbot mention it to people who ask the right question.

Yeah... this occurred to me as a potential goal. ...but seems hard to achieve in reality. I might actually switch to BING now or something.

 

[Noodles]

Yeah... this occurred to me as a potential goal. ...but seems hard to achieve in reality. I might actually switch to BING now or something.

Use Ecosia, they plant trees.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Use Ecosia, they plant trees.

But they recently installed a ChatGPT bot, which probably offsets whatever good the tree-planting might do.

 

[Noodles]

But they recently installed a ChatGPT bot, which probably offsets whatever good the tree-planting might do.

Yeah I notoced, its kind of infuriating.

 

[Lexxi]

Google's intent is to own all of the information in the world and make its chatbot eventually the only portal by which you can access any of it. With no list of search results at all anymore, even SEO is completely moot - the only way to get your site any visibility will be to pay Google to allow its chatbot mention it to people who ask the right question.

That reminds me when I was on AOL back in, um, can't recall. Early '90s. Possibly 1990. I remember logging in and seeing stuff like a news section an entertainment section. Etc. I kept wondering 'how the heck do I get to the actual world-wide-web and out of this AOL enclosed box?' Then I found a Mormon chatroom and spent hours teasing Mormons.

Ah, the years that don't exist, because, really, I can't be that old, right?

Oh, and no, they did not convince me to join the Mormons.

So, Google wants AOL box.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Please enjoy this piece by The Onion that was written more than a decade ago

 

[Noodles]

Please enjoy this piece by The Onion that was written more than a decade ago

More like "it can't control."

All this AI push is just a way to get everyone on board with lies.

2030 "Hey Gemini, was Trump a bad President?"

Gemimi 2030, "Trump was perfrct and did much to help your techbro overlords gain a foothold and defeat the evil Woke Mind Virus. please comply with the ICE reeducation squad thst has been dispatched due to questioning thoughts citizen."

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

mhoye (@mhoye@cosocial.ca)

The "let me google that for you" site now redirects to a dot-app tld which either ships malware or looks an awful lot like something that ships malware, which isn't great on its face, but if you see it as a piece of guerrilla performance art it's right on time and right on target.

cosocial.ca

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

For what it's worth, now that Google is no longer an actual search engine, website administrators have literally-literally no incentive whatsoever anymore to not block Google's spider and any of their other bots. They all have no other function except to steal content and training fodder for the slop machine now.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I might actually switch to BING now or something.

I was actually thinking that. If they break &udm=14 I'm out of there.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

It will still hallucinate the results. Because hallucination is all it does.

 

[Free]

It will still hallucinate the results. Because hallucination is all it does.

PROMPT: You are a 1970's hippie constantly tripping on acid.

GOOGLE: DON'T BE EVIL!

 

[Free]

It looks like Google has "fixed" the issue with disregard. I'm sure there's more to come.

Google is currently struggling to define words like disregard, stop and ignore - Engadget

The search engine's definitions have been replaced with AI Overviews.

www.engadget.com