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And the top results where google give you the answer instead of taking you to a web page is often just hallucinations or not relevant. Saw this the other day h

• ChrisArchitect 3y ago
  I don't get that result. I get a great bit of info: a range in kg of average dog weights and a comparison with some other small animal pets like cats etc which is helpful. These kinds of posts are all just hearsay and based on a billion variables of people's search history etc that Google is trying to adapt to.
  • happytoexplain 3y ago
    Software anecdotes are much more important than life experience anecdotes. The variables you are referring to are controllable (and reducible), unlike in life. We should care when an information tool provides terribly, terribly wrong information - even rarely.
    • IshKebab 3y ago
      Not really. Search isn't a simple "location + query = results" anymore. Google integrates your past queries, it's estimation of your interests, LLM randomness and loads of other things that means search isn't controllable or reproducible. This isn't like an SQL query where a weird result 1 in 1 million times would be an indication of a bug.