A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting

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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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    noai.duckduckgo.com, for at least one alternative.

    CoMaps or Openstreetmaps instead of Google Maps.

    ProtonMail/ProtonDrive instead of gmail, gdrive.

    There are lots of alternatives, we just need to use them and tell others to use them as well.

    • blitzen@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      DuckDuckGo is AI opt-out, and for me that’s a non-starter.

      I’ve personally found Kagi the best search alternative.

      • ProfessorGlorps@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Kagi is based in the US and uses the Yandex (Russia) search-index as part of their stack. I am trying to stay away from both. But yeah, their search results are nice :)

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I miss the actual old Google, where the searches wouldn’t intentionally show you a lot of things you don’t want in order to keep you searching longer for their ad revenue. The one where if you put something between “quotes” it would only show you results with those specific words, and you coul -minus a word to specifically exclude results that contained that word.

    Google has been a piece of shit for like 15+ years now. They’re even making android suck.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I remember being taught about search operators in school. Of course they’d take that away, it’s such a powerful way to get exactly what you’re looking for, no bullshit.

      • belochka@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I think in older search engines the results were not rated at all, and you could use syntax similar to SQL.

        Using them as sort of a Web index. Would be very useful if not for all the bots and SEO sites.

        Unfortunately, Google, Yahoo and others gradually reduced that to just a set of keywords.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.