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‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI (www.theguardian.com)
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Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.

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[–] bruh@nord.pub 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

if you are struggling to find information on google just as here in Lemmy. there will be at least one person who have bookmarked the site you might have been seeking. just be nice to each other :)

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I have an idea for an instance called MentatSearch or something where everyone joins and if it gets like a 100,000+ subscribers then when people are looking for something online, they can ask there and inevitably someone will know it off the top of their head.

Kind of like r/identifythisfont on Reddit. There's like 150,000+ font nerds there and if you post an image of a font, it gets identified within a half hour.

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

That's been around for porn for a long time too; r/tipofmypenis and findapornstar if your feeling that way inclined.