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The same AI search results that recommend that their users eat glue or kill themselves.

I don't believe this is a right move for Google, but Google does not care about that. Google cares about showing ads, and I'd love to know how they plan on doing that, when everybody will google a term, read the (terrible) AI description and close the tab. Will the ads be injected directly into the responses? Will this be fairly and transparently disclosed?

There was a running theory that google results have detoriated in quality because google wants you to scroll down, to look at more ads. This runs contrary to this expected behavior, so I don't know what to think. I might have to start looking for an alternative.

I really like Ecosia, but if anybody has any recommendations, do tell.

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They show a picture in the article where a few website are linked on top of the answer.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AI-Mo...

I assume the ads could be to replace the first website by an ad.

With LLM, it's also very possible that the ad get injected directly into the result.

For instance, searching for 'is car insurance obligatory?' would return the usual paragraph about yes and why and then tell you insuranceX has pretty good car insurance pricing and reputation.

I’ve been quite happy with Kagi so far.

I second Kagi, its been very good for me to the point I don't use google at all now.

I did the trial a year ago and never looked back; it's awesome

> I'd love to know how they plan on doing that, when everybody will google a term, read the (terrible) AI description and close the tab.

Using an LLM, they can set up the bot-character to dynamically recommend, persuade, and prime viewers directly.

A subtler version of the Truman Show model: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BCJyGy6AFJo

Any recommendations for search engines that do not get rid of results that violate DMCA? You know, "watch X free online" used to give me all sorts of useful websites, now it typically does not or it takes longer to find them.

Of course if you know where to look, it does not matter as much, and I do, but still. :P

I just want the old Google experience.

Brave search seems the least censored

I’ve personally replaced about 2 out of 5 searches with chatgpt queries so I do believe it’s in the right direction

I think the first paragraph while true is not indicative of anything since it can be fixed and improved

SOTA ChatGPT models have a hallucinaton rate of 37.1%! [1]

I can't say that I have not used it in similar ways though, and it might be very often the best alternative. I just worry that in this age of misinformation, many incorrect 'facts' will be absorbed blindly into these models and spewed forth.

(edit - wrong source, my bad) [1] https://nypost.com/2025/02/28/business/sam-altmans-openai-la...

I'm not sure if you meant to cite that source, it has nothing to do with the hallucination rate you state in your post.

You are completely right, my bad! Fixed the source now.

Kagi. It's like Google when Google wasn't ad-ridden garbage.

How about qwant.com? Privacy friendly, no nonsense by default.

I've only seen qwant being used on heise.de until 1-2 years ago and found it to be bad.

These days i use duckduckgo and perplexity most of the time.

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