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Google search is over (mastodon.social)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K." "What about Kenya?" "Kenya suck deez nuts?"

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Cool thing about kagi though. I added emergent mind to my blocked domains list, and now the quick answer displays the proper answer. Still not ideal but better than no options at all to fix it

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yeah I actually just found that functionality myself today when I was looking at how I could get rid of the very same emergent mind result.

    However, it seems that my quick answer got cached, at least for a while, so it stayed the same even if the results now were different.

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