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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
submitted 6 months ago by RGB@group.lt to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

And Bing search is not bad at all. CoPilot is firmly mediocre though

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Bing search is still terrible. I frequently paste the same exact term from Bing to Google, and Bing won’t have a relevant return for pages, whereas Google still gets it in the first 3 links. I have Bing as my default on my work PC so I get to run this comparison frequently. I genuinely am curious how people think Bing returns better results than Google. It’s a night and day difference.

Copilot is no worse than chatGPT which is the current standard.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Where Google absolutely fails for me now is if I ever want information about a product beyond where to purchase it, especially if I want a review. I have to go through pages and pages of shopping links before I can hope to get relevant information, if I ever do.