yeah man you put it on google.com and forced it on users who cares - ThreadSky

edzitron.com • 1 day ago

yeah man you put it on https://google.com and forced it on users who cares

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ALPHABET CEO: AI OVERVIEWS NOW HAS OVER 1.5B MONTHLY USERS NEARLY ONE YEAR AFTER US LAUNCH

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raidpanda.bsky.social•1 day ago

And pushed it on every Android Device also.

krafte.bsky.social•1 day ago

Switched my primary search to https://duckduckgo.com to avoid the wasted time of scrolling past Google's garbage AI.

summercodinggames.bsky.social•1 day ago

I switched to the duck as well.

richardmaw.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shame the duck is trying to force its own. The "never show this again" button doesn't seem to stick.

russ.amodernremedy.com•21 hours ago

This might help:

https://bsky.app/profile/russ.amodernremedy.com/post/3lnm2qiuqt22n

richardmaw.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Fantastic! Thank you 🙂

goreckis.co•23 hours ago

I don’t know, I think the bleach that Google recommended had really improved the taste of my chicken noodle soup.

toyfu332.bsky.social•1 day ago

In other words, 1.5 billion people forget to put "-AI" at the end of their searches each month.

noahmorris-42.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Just non consensually forcing it to be seen by everyone again and again. Like a damn subway flasher

garrettleach.dev•1 day ago

Now we can calculate how many users go out of their way to disable this non-disablable feature 24/7

trollsdottir.bsky.social•1 day ago

OMG, AI search results make me go so mad. I want old google search that gave me websites with the info, not some ai-babble

incompetentweiner.bsky.social•1 day ago

Big U2 album on iPod energy

bighomie39.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Except unlike that debacle of Bono thinking "hey what if we gave people a free album" with a horrendously botched execution, this is bad at the conceptual level

gurblegooch.bsky.social•23 hours ago

This is their version of "Internet Explorer is the most popular browser".

jauntyhog.bsky.social•20 hours ago

It's going to be fun when they have to try to make money off it and everyone who had no choice about getting served this shit goes "nah".

sexcpotatoes.bsky.social•1 day ago

It misattributed the "take off and nuke the site from orbit" from Aliens.

mervaala.bsky.social•13 hours ago

"The amount of kittens drowned increased 10000% last quarter after we added the default kitten-drowning setting on our search engine used by billions!"

sweavart.bsky.social•1 day ago

Remember when they said anyone who had a Gmail account was a Google + user

originalgriffon.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Seriously

spiveyt.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Gemini how to disable"

incompetusrex.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, he means the AI overviews almost everybody skips.

diplo-docus.bsky.social•1 day ago

FYI, you can block the AI overview with a custom filter in the uBlock Origin browser extension.

richardmaw.bsky.social•1 day ago

It still boils the ocean in the backend even if it doesn't get shown.

diplo-docus.bsky.social•1 day ago

For sure. The few times I still use Google though I at least don't have to look at it.

mike-kelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

The mouse has no pajamas!

mike-kelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

Context: someone on the BetterOffline subreddit mentioned that you can append "meaning" to all kinds of nonsense and get a serious AI reply.

tsunamiskweek.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is like claiming you have a 100% adopt rate on Microsoft Edge

wheyword.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I tried using Google to find out if a certain retired VTuber was streaming under a new persona, and any time I slightly changed wording the AI would give me a different answer.

All that money to make an AI as confused and annoying as I am.

caylen.bsky.social•1 day ago

cool that the worlds biggest advertising company is counting impressions and cannibalization behaviors as Users

really inspiring stuff for those of us who count on them for metrics

lisathinksalot.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I switched to DuckDuckGo and have not looked back. At least they let you opt out of the slop

typingloudly.zip•1 day ago

lol yeah taking credit for this is the absolute worst

joe4ea.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does it count as usage when I sigh and scroll immediately past it?

cmiciek.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gotta goose those numbers somehow.

cooldadesq.bsky.social•1 day ago

Helping millions put glue on their pizzas and suggesting what to say to their doctors afterwards

mobking.bsky.social•17 hours ago

the ONE time I didn’t scroll past it and trusted the chatbot, it gave me the wrong information (“season six is the latest season of Black Mirror” when in fact it was season seven)

lloydgonkillya.bsky.social•4 hours ago

https://udm14.com/

Found this very helpful

mermz.bsky.social•2 hours ago

That feeling of INTERNET circa 1996 feels perfect, thank you. 🙏

samdphd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Destroying the planet for something no one asked for, while giving dangerously wrong answers. (The use and possession of magic mushrooms is definitely criminalised here in Australia.)

smellsfischy.bsky.social•1 day ago

I use it every time I want to know how many bees are in my computer

edzitron.com•1 day ago

how many are you up to?

smellsfischy.bsky.social•1 day ago

liquefytherich.bsky.social•22 hours ago

so does that mean queries are down to 1.5B a month cuz that seems low for google

josephusbrown.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s literally why I switched my default search engine on my phone to duck duck go

mtblah.bsky.social•1 day ago

1.49 B of these users don’t want it and skip right over it to their search results while cursing you for making them do this…

sadlywriting.bsky.social•1 day ago

This ditch I dug is really popular with all the people I keep murdering and dumping in there. People are just dying to use it!

hewn.bsky.social•1 day ago

I bet they've lost a ton of people that were regularly using their search engine because of it.

trade0ffs.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shut up Ed, my glue and rocks -based diet has been doing wonders for my skin

plankysmith.bsky.social•1 day ago

ikr

prowl.bsky.social•1 day ago

My basement has ten satisfied customers using the chains on the walls.

hummens.bsky.social•9 hours ago

If they didn't like it they would have left by now. That's the free market, baby.

dangrously.bsky.social•19 hours ago

A trick I have heard about (that has worked for me) is to put some particularly spicy swear words in the search query. "who was the first president of Finland, motherfucker" something like that.

dangrously.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I tried it just then. It came up with Samuel L Jackson

Fuck. Back to the drawing board.

eddbagenal.bsky.social•1 day ago

-AI ... so boring having to add that every time

ghezell-crtv.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Our next story: Air has over 8 billion continuous users.

divinedice.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're so proud of that big chunk of screen I have to scroll past to get my answer

colinmattson.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I gave AI Overview a shot a couple days ago when I needed to restart my Apple TV. Despite its sole citation being the correct support article, its “summarized” instructions were completely made up.

Back to scrolling past the slop 🤷🏼‍♂️