Google's AI results are what finally got me to switch my default search engine to noai.duckduckgo.

You can set it with

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&noai=

in your web browser settings.

Edit: posting here keeps adding a "25" after the percent sign and before "s&noai=". You don't need the number there.

They ruined their search engine too

It gets even better. The trillion dollar chatbot is not only killing the basis for search but its very own as well: All those content creators, small ones, large ones, commercial ones. They all are dying because of it, yet the chatbot needs constant feeding to stay alive, and will poison itself if fed on its own content. ... This will be fun.

Not only make less money, but literally pay money for people to engage with it for free

Oh no, people are leaving us because the things we did well are getting worse!

PUT MORE AI IN IT!! TRIPLE DOWN!!! KISS THE CRUSTY ORANGE BROWN RING!

Trouble is, the web for which the PageRank algorithm was developed has long since died - its highly decentralized, interlinked network of freely available information has almost entirely been replaced by centralized, account-gated silos. Web search engines, in turn, have gotten progressively worse since long before LLMs had become computationally feasible.

have they tried putting more more ai in it? the investors all agreed this was the best solution!

I never understood the previews, AI or otherwise. Why would a company pay you for placement when the preview steals your content and puts it above your ad?

Technically they still made more money. They just made less than their projections by about a billion dollars.

I don't run into or use much AI, but Gemini seems to be the worst I encounter. It does pretty well at presenting facts and summations, but I've found it wrong enough times to be leary.

Their search results have been unusable for years.

Google doesn't care about the profitability today. Just look at how they are integrating the AI into Maps, Android, Search and now those "Googlebooks".

What they want is for you to die, and for a whole new generation that can't interact with computers or information in any other way except a chatbot that can filter and control what they see. That's when profits go through the roof.

Oh, none of these companies make money! They parasite off from governments practicing free market "Liberalism" giving them cash and contracts and they do pump and dump stock trading schemes to get good valuations, big investments and big bank loans then just time the accruing and dispersal of their debts carefully.

At some point the investments and saving accounts just start self-reproducing money because we don't have an economy that expects organizations to have a trillion dollars... So it's for practical purposes an infinite money glitch.

They don't make money they just acquire enough of it that the money starts reproducing.

I was born to be evil. I'm a member of the Bar Sinister AND I was born on a dark Halloween night. My mother always told me I kept her up all night when I was born.

It's temporary. They'll start shutting down the non-AI alternatives soon enough and there will be grumbling, but people will fall in line like they always do. This is a minor hit. It's them mentioning that people aren't feeding enough into the dumpster fire, but they're simultaneously sealing off more and more exits.

Duckduckgo.com Ftw

Money is only a means to power. If they get the power through other means, them losing money indicates nothing about their success.

Idiots. What a failure. All the had to do was change the prompt from "swap the search with a trillion dollar chat bot" to "swap the search with a trillion dollar chat bot and make it make more money" and they would've been golden.

Google released an API for the web results. People need to learn to use it.

tenbluelinks.org

You're most welcome!

Bullshit. AI overview is the only thing that stopped the death of Google.