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Was looking for pharmacy hours. Need my meds today.
"AI overview" showed me it was open til 10pm. I squinted and looked at the correct results below: open until 7pm.
Going to gets my meds now before it closes.
Fuck AI.
Search has literally gotten so much worse since they forced AI into it. Can I please have 2020 google back? Hell even earlier likely.
Tip: Adding "before:2022" in your image searches will avoid a lot of AI slop.
I've had both DDG(Bing) and Google give me "no results found" for a query I know with 100% certainty worked a few years ago.
Started with a few words in a row in quotation marks, and it just goes nope. Then you add a bunch of related keywords and suddenly it can find it just fine. And will even highlight the phrase you had in quotation marks, the one it claimed had zero results. Because it no longer uses your words to actually search through web page contents, it puts your query into an LLM and uses that to filter and lookup things.
This is my exact assumption. It use to be very useful to use quotes for finding very specific things like file names. Now it's just garbage and returns no results when the LLM spits out garbage.
I just can't understand why it doesn't fallback to old behavior.
Seems like they actually have lost their old infrastructure by implementing LLM stuff. They literally went backwards in terms of search.
Because it no longer uses your words to actually search through web page contents, it puts your query into an LLM and uses that to filter and lookup things.
Oh, hell no. Does anyone have a list of which search engines do that? Or alternatively, a list of search engines that explicitly don't?
Because I don't even know where to search to find this kind of information anymore.
Just add "fuck" to your search and never see the AI overview again.
I work with kids. If I tried that approach with some of the things I need to look up, I'd probably end up with Feds at my door.
Fuck blippi park near me.
Another things that sucks with search engines these days:
Try searching for information on a subject that has been in the news recently (not info about news event), and all you get is current blogs and news articles from today and yesterday..
Yeah. Sadly Twitter is still the best place to get breaking news. As long as you follow respectable journalist.
I was just watching a YT video and they were using screen caps of Google AI search results to explain something and I just immediately closed it. Fucking morons.
Seems universal that pharmacies are open until 7 with a closure from 1:30 to 2 for lunch. 6 PM on Sundays.
I'm not even on CVS and mine runs the same hours.
If they ran enough people they could stagger lunch hours and not have to close for that 30 mins (which is ridiculous for a lunch break, even if you brought something). But we're talking about stores that have made having maybe two on the floor stocking with one running to the register when needed, and only a few in the pharmacy to handle lines inside and the drive-thru.
And it's considered the norm now in the US. Because what is your option for the medical part? They're all the same, they've made most family owned stores close, and often your insurance through your employer (another racket itself) requires you go to a particular brand. The only real choice you have is which store if you're in an urban area. Sometimes driving a few more miles to the next one means you find stuff in stock and you get waited on faster.
From what I've seen, it's not a problem with the pharmacy techs, it's the pharmacist proper. If the pharmacist is out, then the techs can't deliver the drugs because of consultations.
This is the reason 100%. The Pharmacist and consultations is what matters. Pharmacies rarely hire to have more than 1 pharmacist on at any given time. Just like many stores only have 1 manager on at a time.
Hell, in some areas where legal, CVS and the like have been trying to switch to remote pharmacists via video calls to not even have to hire for each location! Just taking absolute minimum staffing to the next level to optimize profits even more. You thought it was bad not having an extra employee to cover call outs and vacation? Now it's being constantly understaffed to optimize profit.
Right, so to close for any time implies there's only one pharmacist on duty. I don't even mind having a down time for lunch really, it's just that it's too short to be realistic, and it's solely to minimize the labor, which is always the first thing to squeeze.
Our Rite Aid is open 8am to 9pm with a 30 min lunch. Too bad the store part looks like it belongs in the Fallout series.
Still, I'm never going back to CVS.
Our Rite Aid had some kind of AC problem so they were running duct work up and down the aisles trying to keep the place cool and all I could think of was:
Isn’t it fun, to not know if information you are given is anywhere from correct to completely wrong randomly.
while you're at it, switch to a search engine that lets you completely and permanently disable AI bullshit so it never even shows up again
My typical search engine is really bad at showing hours for local businesses.
I only use this search because it usually shows accurate hours. ......which is now apparently a "sometimes"–thing.
Same happened for us and a local store. It said they were open on Easter, but were not.
Google maps has been acting fucky as well. Is it getting poisoned by AI?
Yup. It's complete nonsense garbage. AI results mean you now need to research those answers when it's just better to ignore/disable it and use your own logic and searching skills.
ai is great for spitting your own thoughts back at you but not for gaining nrw information
My own thoughts are useless.
What does that say about AI?
Another example of it being full of shit
Gaston is angry now.
A roughly barge sized anger.
What the fuck are you even talking about this is accurate
Oh, you're memeing. Enjoy your block
Appropriate username
I've had similar results just from whatever system Google uses to track store hours. It gets out of date or something and has become useless to me because I can't rely on it.
At this point I cannot believe anyone would trust that.
In my town store hours in Google maps or Apple Maps are exactly as reliable as this AI.
You can click the little link icons to see where it got its misinformation.
And usually the links have the right information, meaning that the AI was the singular point of failure.
Hey, remember when you had to call or go look on the door to find out when businesses close?
Good times.
