Google search is over

Via @rodhilton

Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

“There are no countries in Africa that start with K.” “What about Kenya?” “Kenya suck deez nuts?”

Google Search is over.

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NeoNachtwaechter,

I could reproduce it exactly as described.

solstice,

I literally just googled that exact search inquiry and it told me all about Kenya. What’s the problem again, and why are all these comments pretending the so-called glitch is real?

spacebot3000,
@spacebot3000@lemmy.world avatar

I just did it. It told me there were no countries in Africa that start with K, except for Kenya, which starts with K. That obviously doesn’t make any sense, and sounds suspiciously similar to a lot of chatGPT-generated content (the distinguishing factor being that it sounds confidently incorrect, and contradicts its own statements). Then it said some stuff about how fun it is to learn new things, 100% reeks of shitty AI-generated content. I can post a screenshot if you want proof.

solstice,

I believe you. Maybe it depends on browser, whether you are logged in, things like that?

This is the first result at the top spelled out succinctly:

Kenya is located on the eastern coast of Africa and borders Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the north, Uganda to the west, South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the southwest, and Somalia again on the southern border

Next link was worldometer with Kenya pulled up first.

Is this what you saw?

Human:

Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with the letter “k”?

ChatGPT:

Yes, that’s correct! While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.

That was in the third or fourth link down. Sort of makes sense if it is trending or whatever.

spacebot3000,
@spacebot3000@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah, the chatGPT text you posted is word-for-word identical to the google result. Could be any number of factors affecting the pagerank I guess.

youthinkyouknowme,

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/767d46b3-af4e-432b-809a-f239fe571d09.jpeg

theKalash,

Not pretending, happened exactly as OP said.

Empricorn,

I don’t know what you’re talking about. No one’s “pretending” here. I just OCR copy/pasted the exact same text and got the same (wrong) result, just like others here have…

Gargantu8,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/088586c3-8d5d-4a2d-9553-586c99d22bbf.png

This just happened for me.

SouthernCanadian,

Google’s Mysterious Proprietary Algorithm shows different results to different people. Why are you pretending that other people are pretending?

1984, (edited )
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Compare with Kagi (this is a shared search for anyone who doesn’t have an account):

kagi.com/search?q=country+in+Africa+that+starts+w…

Brendan,
@Brendan@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s Kagi https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bebe45d0-19aa-4c98-a22d-bc57f4eee3b4.png

Gowens,

How are you liking Kagi?

chloyster,

Not op but I love kagi. I’ve tried so many search engine alternatives and always found myself going back to Google (or using g! to get Google results)

Kagi is the first I’ve tried where the results are good enough (and get better as I tailor what domains I want to appear higher or lower) to not have to rely on Google. I am a pretty avid searcher though and found I need to be on the $10/month plan for it to work out to the cheapest while still searching like I normally do

Gowens,

I think I stopped searching for things because Google got so damn bad. I remember the days when I could go several pages deep just looking through the internet.

Kagi is definitely peaking my interest from what I’ve seen so far.

Brendan,
@Brendan@lemmy.world avatar

Switched a year ago and never looked back. I was using ddg before that. Highly recommended. Being able to block and rank sites is great. You can also setup redirects and there’s a quick link to the Internet Archive for every link too.

Z4rK,

Alas, it has the emergent mind answer ranked fairly high still, and when search result was set to my country it was actually ranked highest.

Also, if you use Quick Answer, you’ll get same wrong answer:

Quick Answer There are no countries in Africa whose name starts fully with the letter “K”. While Kenya is the closest match, its name does not start solely with “K” [1]. All of the African countries’ names were reviewed across multiple sources and none began completely with the letter “K” [2][3][4].

chloyster,

Cool thing about kagi though. I added emergent mind to my blocked domains list, and now the quick answer displays the proper answer. Still not ideal but better than no options at all to fix it

rastilin,

The internet really is unusable without some way to block user/sites/etc.. That's Kagi's single greatest feature.

Z4rK,

Yeah I actually just found that functionality myself today when I was looking at how I could get rid of the very same emergent mind result.

However, it seems that my quick answer got cached, at least for a while, so it stayed the same even if the results now were different.

krogoth,

Kagi’s “quick answer” gives me a better result:

Quick Answer

The countries in Africa that start with the letter K are: Kenya Kazakhstan [1]

[1] List of countries in Africa in alphabetical order

Though I don’t know if that’s because Kagi has fixed it in the last half hour, or some other factor. Still not a great answer. At least Kagi doesn’t show it by default, at least with my settings.

Z4rK,

I think it’s just based on which 4-6 search results are ranked on top for you / your country, and then that’s used as basis for the quick answer. It also seems to cache the quick answer so even after I forced it so downrank some results, my answer was the same.

Synthead,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/93d3d1c8-94c3-42f2-8368-2af4b2753753.png

Neato,
Neato avatar

Bing gives me the right answer: that list of countries.

What an amazing time we live in. Where Bing is better than Google. Though Bing does have AI, I think you have to scroll up (past the top) or directly search with it so far.

Kbin_space_program,

Bing chat originally screwed it up but it figured it out the 2nd time I asked in a new window.

Sumea,

I tested this with my local google so not America, somewhere in Europe. “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound.” I’d say this is worth a wot.

Sumea,

it is not Artificial Intelligence. It is Average Intelligence. And they want it everywhere.

JoBo,

It’s not intelligence at all. It does not understand what you ask it or what it tells you. It can string words together in a plausible sounding order. It cannot think.

ohlaph,

I don’t even know what to say here.

Aelorius,

That is why some people are building new search engines as admarust.net a full p2p search engine able to index IPFS content. github.com/Mubelotix/admarus

HawlSera,

We don’t have AI. We have a chinese room.

ox0r,

Metaverse part 2

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Wow, I didn’t know AI was dumb (for now).

resin85,

The result if you unfortunately have Google’s “Bard AI” search lab turned on. At least it has a disclaimer that the results may be garbage.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/66dca2a4-7d40-425c-9074-02afc5bc5e9a.jpeg

alvanrahimli,

Just checked on Kagi. It doesn’t provide quick answer to this query, but that weird EmergentMind website is #1 on results. This is prolly because Kagi is taking some of the results from Google index, but good thing is, I can just block this website using lenses.

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