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I'll add, that Google search AI integration is quite good. I'm actually amazed how well it works, given the scale of Google Search. Nowadays I don't click searc
by vbezhenar 1y ago
I'll add, that Google search AI integration is quite good. I'm actually amazed how well it works, given the scale of Google Search. Nowadays I don't click search results in 50% of searches, because Google AI outputs response good enough for me.
- asciimov 1y agoMaybe we have a different Google AI down here in south Texas, but the Google search AI results I receive are laughably bad. It has made up tags for cli functions, suggested nonexistent functions with usage instructions, it’s given me operations in the wrong order, and my personal favorite it gave me a code example in the wrong language (think replying Visual Basic for C).
- cpncrunch 1y agoIts about half and half. Really depends on whether there are good results that gemini can summarize. If not, it gets creative. Chatgpt is generally much better.
- echelon 1y agoChatGPT is better, but Google owns all of the panes of glass (for now). We've never seen a "Dog Pile vs Yahoo" battle when the giants are of this scale. It'll be interesting to see if Google can catch up with ChatGPT (seems likely) and if they simply win by default because they're in all of the places (also seems likely). It'd be pretty wild for ChatGPT to win, honestly.
- reilly3000 1y agoPeople are forming deep personal attachments to it. They think all their chat history is in context and Act as if it knows them personally and has formed an opinion about them. They are replacing social interaction with it. I doubt someone in that deep would want to switch to something new very easily.
- rwyinuse 1y agoI doubt that's a very high percentage of users. Most people use it as a productivity-boosting tool like search engine.
- echelon 1y agoIt's a spectrum. A lot of people who are unfamiliar with how the technology works talk about "my GPT". Google that phrase, or start watching for it to crop up in conversation. On the other end of the spectrum, there are lots of tiny little pockets like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
- cpncrunch 1y agoI think a bigger issue is people just believing all the stuff that AI tells them, without bothering to check it.
- gundmc 1y agoThe AI Overviews (on the main SRP) is pretty hit or miss. The new "AI Mode" (separate tab) is _very_ good.
- jiggawatts 1y agoIt cracks me up that I can only find animated marketing bs pages about this that show nothing of interest, but I can't actually find how to use it despite minutes of looking. Well done Google Marketing, well done. Another product carefully kept away from the grubby little hands of potential users!
- Barbing 1y agoThey even disabled it if you didn’t use the right combination of browser and willingness to share your data. Seems a lot more like general availability on my end now, though, these past few days. One can try Google dot com, slash AIMode. Not nearly as good as using Gemini 2.5 pro which they do offer for free but I forget where. AI studio? So many ways to access it.
- alfalfasprout 1y agothis is the first I've heard of anyone praising it... the results are usually outright wrong or useless.
- redwood 1y agoA lot of folks probably just assume it's correct
- pests 1y agoMy buddy learned this last week when we went out of the way to get gas at a wholesale store and he swore he looked it up and claimed it was open late. Well, it wasn’t.
- bentcorner 1y agoAgree, I've seen enough wrong answers that I think it's actively harmful to put AI answers at the top of Google search results.