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Google search is over (mastodon.social)
submitted 2 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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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I typed in "what countries in Africa start with k" and got Kenya. When I tried your search term I got your result also. Weird.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It kinda seems like that's a joke that got popular, and if you quote the joke it finds the joke but if you ask a similar question it gives the real answer

    Did it go viral or something and that's why google is finding it?

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