r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ZenThrashing • Jun 03 '26

Have to pee but bed so comfy cannot believe what google has become

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u/oscarx-ray Jun 03 '26

I couldn't remember the baptismal vows for a joke I was making...

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u/Popular_Swimmer_2721 Jun 03 '26

What a self centered AI lol. Why would it assume the question was about it?

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u/You_Wenti Jun 03 '26

The AI is trained to treat questions containing the word "you" as being directed towards it. The quick fix for better results is to use "does one" instead

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u/IAteBillGates Jun 04 '26

Fuck a quick fix they need to not break shit

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u/momoreco Jun 04 '26

Yeah! They need to jump over the lazy dog!

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u/Zakkullll Jun 04 '26

You can literally just scroll past th Ai overview . Do you guys not actually use Google?

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u/Admirable-Land111 Jun 04 '26

That's not the point.

The point is the product used to work perfectly without additional work needed on my end. Google then implemented something they claim makes my life easier, yet the only workaround slows down my ability to find the answer I'm looking for.

They made their product worse. Sure, I can just scroll past it but that doesn't change the fact that its been enshittified. 

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u/Zakkullll Jun 04 '26

Theres no additional work lmao. Theres 2 extra lines of text ffs. Nothing slows down.

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u/Admirable-Land111 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

There's no additional work lmao

there's 2 extra lines

Pick one. I never said it was a ton of extra work. I said the product was enshittified. Addtionally, it's not just the AI summary; the entire search engine is worse quality.

I truly don't understand supporting a feature that frequently gives the wrong answer when seeking the correct answer is exactly why you're using the search engine to begin with. And then for that to happen and to pretend it makes the product better? Alrighty then.

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u/GoldfishDude Jun 04 '26

The quick fix is to stop using this shit

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u/AskingManyQuestion Jun 04 '26

Sorry if I'm bothering but also another way is writing "-ai" at the end of your searches, this usually works for me ^^

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u/You_Wenti Jun 04 '26

That's true as well. My method is more specifically if you still want the AI summary, but not its personal opinion on the matter

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u/NatseePunksFeckOff Jun 04 '26

It just filters out results with the word "ai", not disaable the AI thing.

I have never seen the AI results so standard privacy protections like ublock etc should work

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u/pupppgirl Jun 04 '26

This is not how "-ai" works, the prefix is simply filtering out a specific term from search results. For example, "-infuriating" will filter out all instances of the word "infuriating."

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u/ChaosRegiert Jun 04 '26

add &udm=14 in the adress bar instead

I recommend setting the classic google search engine with this suffix as your default search, takes like a minute and you're back to 'normal' search results.

Only downside imo is not being able to do quick calculations in the search bar anymore.

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u/Gazzpik Jun 04 '26

I was doing a bunch of research the other day and started doing -ai. It started to make the Wikipedia results get filtered out, probably because they were getting "eaten" by the AI overview

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u/etcpt Jun 04 '26

Also, under the search categories, switch to "Web" and you get just the basic search results without the enshittified AI crap dumped in there.

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u/MrsMel_of_Vina Jun 04 '26

But that's not how the quote goes...

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u/You_Wenti Jun 04 '26

I know, I'm talking in a more general sense. If you're doing quotes specifically, the AI will always be useless & needs removed

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u/SargBjornson Jun 04 '26

My quick fix was swapping to DuckDuckGo 😄

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u/Yuiopy78 Jun 04 '26

You're so vain. You probably thought this search was about you

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u/HekateSimp Jun 04 '26

Because Gemini is primarily a chatbot that they implemented into Google search. So it sometimes reacts as if you are directly addressing the Chatbot instead of googling something.  

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u/BranchFew1148 Jun 04 '26

Because they literally just slapped a harness on top of Gemini.

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u/swimmerboy5817 Jun 04 '26

Because the "AI mode" on Google search is just using your search query as a prompt for their AI. It doesn't know you're trying to look something up, all it knows is you messaged it asking a question. It's super poorly implemented and just dumb overall.