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Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt in (www.engadget.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you're in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google's generative AI technology, used to appear only if you've opted into the Search Generative Experience(SGE) in the Search Labs platform. Now, according to Search Engine Land, Google has started adding the experience on a "subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the US." And that is why you could be getting Google's experimental AI-generated section even if you haven't switched it on.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll be looking for a uBlockOrigin filter when it hits for me

I try to avoid google search when I can, but this should solve the problem for the rest of the time

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of other search engine that need your attention 🫠

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wish that was the case but sadly most of them are basically Bing or Google frontends or belong to entities that I trust even less. As far as I can tell there are very few independent crawls out there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

SearXNG is fairly decent if you can set that up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

SearXNG is great at what it does but it falls into the Bing/Google/etc-frontend category since it just forwards your query to one of the search engines it has modules for. It doesn't have its own crawl and index.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Kagi has been doing a decent job for me, with the downside that it's paid, and does use results from other places.
They go into detail about how they work, but it's them paying for results from lots of engines, plus their own engine, then heavy duty filtering of the results.
Plus a ML results summarizer you can press after searching.