Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• MBech@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google became crap about 10 years ago when they added the product banner in the top, and had the first 5-10 search results be promoted ads. Long before they every considered adding AI.

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  • parricc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Time is sneaking up on us. It’s not even 10 years anymore. It’s closer to 20. 💀

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  • Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess. And then they removed the “Don’t be evil” motto just to drive the point home.

    But you have to agree, the company DID become even worse once they started using AI.

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    • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh absolutely. It’s just important to remember that they’ve been horrible for a long time, and has shown more ads in a single search than your average 30 minute youtube video.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Google became crap shortly after their company name became a synonym for online searches. When you don’t have competitors, you don’t have to work as hard to provide search results – especially if you’re actively paying Apple not to come up with their own search engine, Firefox to maintain Google as their default search engine, etc. IMO AI has been the shiny new thing they’re interested in as they continue to neglect search quality, but it wasn’t responsible for the decline of search quality.

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• Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google and Microsoft were crap before AI

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  • Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2018. They got rid of that motto in 2018. And you could theoretically argue that Google was getting worse since its conception in 1998.

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    • Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Indeed Young_Gilgamesh

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• fleton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah google kinda started sucking a few years before AI went mainstream, the search results took a dive in quality and garbage had already started circulating to the top.

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• flameleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t mind the AI overviews, but they shouldn’t show up every time you do a search.

  I have a uBlock filter for those

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  • Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mind them. Nobody at my workplace scrolls beyond the AI overview and every single one of the overviews they quote to me about technical issues are wrong, 100%. Not even an occasional “lucky guess”.

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  • Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good for you. I Meant as a design choice for a search engine. Why waste electricity?

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• MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can choose how often you want the AI Overwiew to appear! It like asks you the first time you get one in a small pop up. I still think they should instead work on “highlighting relevant text in a website” like how google used to do. It was so much better.

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  • Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I did not know that. Never noticed a pop up. And does this work with both search engines? You can turn off the AI features on DuckDuckGo with like two clicks, but I can’t seem to find the option on Google.

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    • MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was talking about DDG because I thought you were talking about DDG. I dont think you can turn off AI completely on Google.

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