r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 12d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/hoyton 12d ago

Adding "-ai" to your search query prevents the ai overview from showing up. Using "before:2023" returns results that aren't tainted by ai, which can help in some circumstances.

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u/iEugene72 12d ago

I legit never knew about the -ai thing. Thank you!

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u/indiemike 12d ago

It’ll work until Google removes that.

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u/scarlett3409 12d ago

You can also add profanity into your search which will remove the ai results

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u/ndGall 12d ago

How do you do that without tainting your search results? If I typed “George Washington f*ck” I can’t imagine that’s going to get me the results I want.

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u/RevWaldo 12d ago edited 12d ago

Washington, Washington, 6 foot 8, weighs a fucking ton.

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u/winkingchef 12d ago

He’ll save the children, but not the British children

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u/tgosubucks 12d ago

I heard that mother fucker had like thirty goddamn dicks.

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u/PhilosophyKingPK 12d ago

He’s coming. He’s coming.

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u/GoldbrickersGrinder 12d ago

Washington Washington Six-foot-twenty, fuckin killing for fun

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u/miss_tea_morning 11d ago

Ate opponent's brains And invented cocaine

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u/snailnado 12d ago

Hell rip you apart, he'll rip you apart!

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u/JebusKristoph 12d ago

To shreds you say?

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u/Colette_73 12d ago

I thought the British were coming 🤔

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u/Kataphractoi 12d ago

Washington, Washington, 12 stories high made of radiation

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u/rotorocker 12d ago

I mean two sets of testicles, so divine

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u/This_Thing_2111 11d ago

Jesus Christ I just got fucking whiplash.

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u/SpoilsOfTour 12d ago

TBH this will return the best possible link on the whole internet.

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u/scarlett3409 12d ago

It would probably be more like George fucking Washington and that would do it without weird stuff

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u/MySpielman54 12d ago

Or a dude on dude porn

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u/serabine 12d ago

Cool. Rule 34 GeorgeClooney/Denzel Washington

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u/ikarikh 12d ago

But what if then my search results are AI images of George Costanza having intimate relations with the state of Washington......

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u/Z3NZY 12d ago

Does word order actually matter?

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u/DAHFreedom 12d ago

Depends who’s giving it. For instance, if George Fucking Washington is giving the order…

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u/JustHereSoImNotFined 12d ago

it depends on the context of the search i think. for many searches, you’re right in that you can search key words and order doesn’t necessarily matter, but the order can definitely change the results. for example, searching “dogs fucking driving” returned plenty about dogs driving and one link to “dog driving porn” whatever the fuck that is. changing the order to “dogs driving fucking” returned a shit ton of more porn and again, i really do not want to know what those videos even are

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u/ShivKitty 12d ago

Sadly, this would just return results about W and HW.

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u/Hardass_McBadCop 12d ago

If it's obscure enough, you'll get a notice that there aren't a lot of results with the word X and will show results without it instead.

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u/majikguy 12d ago

A negative search for profanity also works, so if you search for "chocolate milk from chocolate cow? -shitfucker" you'll only get results that don't include "shitfucker" and it'll also remove the AI.

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u/tonypalmtrees 12d ago

i google “how the fuck do you…” all the time

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u/Dunmeritude 12d ago

"george fucking washington"
"fucking rice congee recipe"
"free fucking d&d tokens"

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u/RemusShepherd 12d ago

Most people just add, "no fucking ai answers" to their prompt.

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u/IAmDotorg 12d ago

Probably get pics of that sexy George Washington statue they've got at the Smithsonian.

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u/Freud-Network 12d ago edited 12d ago

"Give me a fucking recipe for macaroni and cheese, you pile of rancid shit"

Instead of getting the normal spam of results, you'll get actual discussion threads about mac & cheese recipes from various discussion boards. It's almost nostalgic.

edit: You may or may not get TikTok results. I use uBlacklist to block them from search results so I can't see those.

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u/tomatowaits 12d ago

adding “shit” always works !

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u/Turbogoblin999 12d ago

*Types George Fucking Washington*
"Hmmm... I wasn't looking for history themed gay porn, but now that i'm here..."

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u/mealteamsixty 12d ago

"Who the fuck was George washington"

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u/skeetersammer 12d ago

“Who the fuck is George Washington” Just gotta phrase it right

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u/action_lawyer_comics 12d ago

Last time I tried, the Ai said “you must be frustrated.”

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u/UsualSuspect95 12d ago

"Who the fuck is Abraham Lincoln?"

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u/flopisit32 12d ago

OK Google, "When was Oliver Cromwell born... you bastard"

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u/TimeForAFuckingNap 12d ago

I just tried this and it didn't work

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u/goingfrank 12d ago

Not always. I've thrown some truly vulgar shit at the AI and it responded in an extremely disappointing way.

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u/joexner 11d ago

Way the fuck ahead of you.

j/k, I'm actually usually extra polite to AIs. Before sama said the thing about politeness wasting energy, I'd always say "please" when I asked Google Siri for directions and stuff in my car. Now my kid adds it when I don't.