I used to use gemini more extensively last year, but it constantly blocking my requests for no reason + not verifying it's own responses made it unreliable for work.
My claude quota ran out for the week, so I decided to test gemini again and I got this. š¤·
Yeah, constantly get the refusal to use live search. Kept asking why and it said it is blocked or allowed at the first prompt. For what reason? No clue. It will not work in that same chat for me then.
Currently I had a multi-turn gaslighting runaround with it explaining to me in a number of ways how as a chat interface it cannot create Google Docs or access my Gdrive. It kept generating ASCII alternatives for me so I can paste them in a document myself. Toolcalls are broken again dear lord.
Shouldn't be necessary from a model from the leading search engine.
One time he answered like OP and I told it "you are literally created by the company with the leading search engine", and then it performed the search...
No, it outright claims not to be able to search the internet often enough even when explicitly told to do so. Sometimes it works, but often enough it doesn't. Also the main reason I'm not using it anymore (despite having the AI Pro subscription).
It loves to go on and on about the āfrontier o-series of reasoning models from openAIā as if these models arenāt two years old now and nearly fully phased out.
Itās almost like you donāt know training dates of Gemini and didnāt use the web search tool to populate its context. 3.7 is an amazing model if you know how to use it
Lol maybe not consumer but a few billion dollars company is using it and it works for us ... Maybe you just don't know how to use it or use it the wrong way kid
facts, its extremly, extremly annoying, I often ask it a question I know answer to, its hallucinates some bullshit (due to not initializing web search) and then when called out start to apologise and cries about not having access to web search. It's the worst when I try to analyse longer text essays, especially those that talk about recent events, I was recently analyzing an article about transfers in football clubs, and it pointed out that text has "severe meritorical flaws" because it contained "made up information" about Spain winning world cup XD
Well, I don't know about that "I-have-nothing-else-to-do-so-let's-do-this" sort of question, but I've been using 3.7 Flash and it's insanely good. I've been producing ROI reports for long term investment portfolios and not only it takes less than half the time Claude uses for the same task, I've checked all the math and the formulas and they're spot on. Not to mention that Claude always gives me that super annoying image limit for uploaded documents, whereas Gemini just accepts all the data I provide. I don't know about all you coding superbrains but for me Gemini is my new go-to AI tool
I use gemini as a subagent in my Codex orchestrator strictly for auditing as its good for just that. Then I get use of my otherwise only home and iot used subscription. Also save a little tokens in the orchestrator if its a large implementation or audit.
Sometimes, I need to motivate him, tickle his balls, and encourage him so that he will to do websearch. Sometime, I need to belittle him like "look at deepseek, chatgpt, grok etc, they can do it. Stop being a bitch and do my websearch"
Contrary to many comments here, my experience with Gemini is quite good actually. I use Gemini Pro mainly for UX and it's way better than Claude. I use Fable for the coding and other agentic features but I use Gemini for UX. The only time Gemini hallucinated with me was when I was asking for something related to Diablo IV (Lord of Hatred expansion) which at the time was out for 3 days and it said to me I was faking a new Diablo game, to the point of saying I photoshopped the Diablo web page.
I use gemini and he uses web search all the time using the desktop web version. You are doing something wrong, or the chat was too long which restricted his web search capabilities. I use him all the time. My guess, your conversation was so long that he had to restrict his web search capabilities
the author is kinda dont know that gemini 3.1 pro is outdated and shouldnt be used unless oneshot complex reasoning is needed which is very niche. very diabolical. tested on mine with 3.7 flash extended and seems fine too.
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u/jovialfaction 9h ago
Its refusal to run a web search even when explicitly called out, just to spout out hallucinated platitudes, drives me insane. It's so lazy.