Google To Make AI Mode Default Search Soon (Maybe Not...)
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Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google DeepMind, Gemini, and all AI products at Google, said Google AI Mode will be the default for Google Search "soon." He said this after Google made google.com/ai go directly to AI Mode's interface on Friday afternoon.

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Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google DeepMind, Gemini, and all AI products at Google, said Google AI Mode will be the default for Google Search “soon.” He said this after Google made google.com/ai go directly to AI Mode’s interface on Friday afternoon.

    • Baldr@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      There was a time Google were orders of magnitude better than anyone else. Now with Google basically just pushing ads at the top and SEO articles taking over, the other search engines aren’t worse.

      In any case, I find that DuckDuckGo is already enough for 90% of my searches and hence it’s my default. This simple fact made my dependency on Google very low nowadays, basically Gmail and Google Maps are the main thing I still use.

      I only fall back to Google Search when I want something more tailored to my country news, something in my language or when I’m searching for something around me (like a store, business etc. which are all on Google Maps). These other search engines seem to be good mostly for English content and struggle to filter for things like “This search should be about country Y”.

      I’m a practical person, so I don’t resort to extremist views like “100% free of Google”, but I guess these little gestures compound over time. Recently I’ve been also changing some services to use a different email (a private one) other than my Gmail address, just to avoid centralizing everything on Google, and so I’ve been effectively diversifying the services I depend on, which is good.

      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        I’ve been using DDG for many years, and I haven’t looked back. Recently, I also set up Qwant on my laptop. So far, it’s been pretty smooth sailing.

        Swapping Google Cancer to Apple Cancer is one way to reduce your dependence on Google, but I’m not entirely sure that really solves the underlying problem. Either way, there are a few Google services that I could replace with alternatives, but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I guess, one day I just need to start paying for a NextCloud subscription or something.

  • padraig@caint.ie
    9·
    6 days ago

    Not surprised nor shocked by this. It’s the way that Google wants the web to go since they seemingly have a chokehold on the search market, and SEO ‘experts’ are following the trends.

    Even DuckDuckGo is starting to slowly introduce ‘Search Assistant’ which prompted me to change to their No AI link which strips all that crap out. https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Can someone TL;DR on what “AI mode” is? Haven’t used Google in a while, but it sounds like a chatbot to me.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    6 days ago

    Lol I love how people assume they won’t load the AI up with even more ads than the traditional search results.

    • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Just insert the ad into the middle of the AI slop paragraph. People won’t even notice when that pizza receipt using soap contains an ad for Dove.