Can you totally reimagine it into what it was 10 years ago? - ThreadSky

bencollins.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Can you totally reimagine it into what it was 10 years ago?

All US users will be able to activate 'AI mode' in Google search and Chrome browser that will provide a conversational, question and answer experience akin to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. www.ft.com/content/b9d1...

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kernelleak.bsky.social•8 days ago

Never forget the people who brought... this... to you...

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

eyesontheright.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ben, can you resurrect Ask Jeeves?

washoutk.bsky.social•8 days ago

Alibaba, now the internet's best search engine.

quilowisp.bsky.social•8 days ago

At Akinator, engine searches you.

birdpoof.bsky.social•8 days ago

I switched to Kagi, Brave, Ecosia, DDG.

meganreally.bsky.social•8 days ago

Just what I go to a search engine for

a conversation

quilowisp.bsky.social•8 days ago

"Computer, find me a lemon meringue pie recipe."

"Speaking of baking pies, -"

"SHUT. UP; RECIPE. NOW."

kwierso.com•8 days ago

Okay, this one though isn't an AI hallucination. That one's juat straight-up plagiarism of most food blogs.

richburroughs.dev•8 days ago

Ben, no ones’s getting promotions doing that.

theserpentsays.bsky.social•8 days ago

I thought it already worked this way.

imccullough.bsky.social•8 days ago

Could they reimagine Google Reader?

rstromberg.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can't wait to search for local restaurant hours and it tells me the Holocaust didn't happen

mopbucket.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm imagining a gives-me-links-to-websites company that isn't also the sells-the-ads-on-all-the-websites company

The problem is just sitting there staring us all in the face and it makes me insane that nobody ever bothers to mention it

bordelac.bsky.social•8 days ago

Not if they want that investor money to keep rolling in. Gotta keep reinventing the wheel at every opportunity.

kaitensatsuma.bsky.social•8 days ago

So this dumbshit is going to kill BOTH Search AND Marketing?

Don't hold onto that Google Stock for too long guys

christilton.bsky.social•8 days ago

Who wants this? I just want the info. I don’t want software to pretend to talk to me.

whoacoolbug.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ughhhh

jeffrodenkirch.bsky.social•8 days ago

Google changed their slogan from "Don't Be Evil" to "Give Us All The Money."

sasasekulic.bsky.social•8 days ago

I have to admit that I doubted them at the beginning, but they did totally change the way I search: I stopped using Google and started using Ecosia and DuckDuckGo 😂

elimgarak240b.bsky.social•8 days ago

I hate these ppl down to my bones.

holdingassumption.bsky.social•8 days ago

Matter of time before it’s the new default, and users have to deactivate it. One year later, the option is gone.

ollyjr.bsky.social•8 days ago

Google nowadays is basically like “fuck you! I’m not going to provide anything remotely close to what you’re searching for!Take this completely irrelevant shit instead…”

jaydeedouble.bsky.social•8 days ago

“activate AI mode now! So you can get completely contradicting AI summaries while searching the exact same topic multiple times!”

remotelyinterested.bsky.social•8 days ago

That would be before being evil became a more explicit corporate priority. That's just not going to be acceptable to stock holders. They'll get sued just like United Healthcare.

chuckysumner.bsky.social•8 days ago

brandever.bsky.social•8 days ago

More like twenty years ago

coleblack.bsky.social•8 days ago

So a little like this?

darthhellokitty.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’d definitely prefer that

imtableship170.bsky.social•8 days ago

You could never say no to a cookie, could you?

gnpowell.bsky.social•8 days ago

Duck duck go and Yellow Pages(actual paper) for me.

kokobean.bsky.social•8 days ago

Gross.

jellymiser.bsky.social•8 days ago

seismoallegra.bsky.social•8 days ago

Try https://udm14.com or add &udm=14 to your query url.

frozzbot.bsky.social•8 days ago

If it doesn't fix climate change it is a fucking waste of everybody's time.

mistervandal.bsky.social•8 days ago

It will start out like this and soon turn into a conversation about viagra before giving you the results you want. Google is, after and advertising company.

am-mccarthy.bsky.social•8 days ago

What do you think Chicago Sun Times?

genxkaren.bsky.social•8 days ago

When will CEOs realize the only people who like AI are other CEOs and a small, weird subset of nerd boy who is a little too hot for an e-girlfriend. The rest of us are like, naw, fam, we’ll pass on the slop.

colbosch.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's an evangelical cult.

timsugrue.bsky.social•8 days ago

And over time storing all this AI data will cost more (if it doesn't already) then just feeding a living human

eltopo71.com•8 days ago

I guess they didn't feel they quite made search shitty enough already?

randomcurious.bsky.social•8 days ago

How on earth would I be able to validate the AI info?

Bing Bing Bing…

cvilletgr.bsky.social•8 days ago

If we'd all stuck with AltaVista we wouldn't be living through half this shit.

washoutk.bsky.social•8 days ago

Dogpile we hardly knew ye and then you were killed by legislation.

jc-allen.bsky.social•8 days ago

This isn't one of the reasons I stopped using Google's search engine, but it is a reason that reinforces that decision. 👎

ursrbrot.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can I pay genAi $10 to fuck off?

porkrocket.bsky.social•8 days ago

I thought we were already in AI mode for Google?

talanstrider.bsky.social•8 days ago

"AI mode" implies that you wouldnt get ai features while it's off, but you KNOW they're going to keep shoving ai into off mode even after adding this

twifferthegnu.bsky.social•8 days ago

why the fuck would i want to have a conversation with a tool?

whoacoolbug.bsky.social•8 days ago

twvitus.bsky.social•8 days ago

Another Indian enshittification expert.

robertwalter.bsky.social•8 days ago

So much this.

canoetherich.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can't wait to ask this thing for sports betting picks so it can give me search results from 2023.

fabster12345.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's crazy to think that it wasn't any other search website that will ultimately kill Google. Self inflicted. A simple search has become unusable. This will just make it 100x worse.

graysqurl.bsky.social•8 days ago

Rapidly becoming a Luddite

meefstewk.bsky.social•8 days ago

i think clickbait spam sites have changed the internet landscape too much for that to work these days but who knows

jeannebobeanieisat.bsky.social•8 days ago

No thank you.

lajogi.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://kagi.com/

futurexskeleton.bsky.social•8 days ago

i would very much like an unimagined version of google search

marleywrites.bsky.social•8 days ago

Someone reinvent Jeeves already.

spiderresearcher.bsky.social•8 days ago

Google noticed us all adding 'reddit' to our searches for more in depth answers, and now the AI overview presents a redditor simulacrum which tells me Larry Bonds was better at baseball than his brother Barry, and that I should kill myself

amano-jack.bsky.social•8 days ago

Prabhakar Raghavan, the Herald of Enshittification, Reaper of Search has killed yet another search company

What's left for him to taint with his Shit-Meidas touch?

donna6226.bsky.social•8 days ago

will come to no good

abumirchi.com•8 days ago

No but for $9 a month you can get @kagi.com and achieve that.

blufruit.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can sundar pichai innovate a way for us to never have to be subject to any of his stupid-ass MBA ideas?

jaydubois.bsky.social•8 days ago

tpasinet.bsky.social•8 days ago

And FFS...bring back Reader.

four-torpedoes.bsky.social•8 days ago

Controlling what information you can find.

o76923.bsky.social•8 days ago

Anyone squatting on the Lycos, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Excite, or Ask Jeeves brand could make so much money offering a "classic" search engine at this point.

washoutk.bsky.social•8 days ago

I unapologetically use Yandex to see the other side of the wall so to speak.