Google's new "AI overview" takes up about half of the screen on a phone and cannot be disabled. This is one of the most user-hostile choices they've ever made.
Thank you! I used to use DuckDuckGo, but I had to switch to Google as DDG became overrun with LLM-generated results in the past 2 years. Google has some ability to reject them.
This! you can default to it in Chrome: settings->engine->search engines, edit default one and insert udm=14 magic fragment in the query template.
Not letting you disable it may be user-hostile, but it also helps Google product managers to inflate their KPIs, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not.
Perfect summary: stealing screen real estate and adding a cognitive load damages the user experience. Plain and simple!
The annoying thing is that 95% of the time it’s not at all what I want, but 5% of the time it’s pretty good. But if I had the option to expand it or something, I’d probably never do that and miss out on the 5% of the time that it’s good.
What if it was a separate Google tool so it didn’t interrupt search?
And it is wrong so many times. One set of eyeballs, one answer not verified, and that’s the future we are facing.
It told me that a book written in 1930 in England was authored by Johannes Gutenberg.