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How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Post by streamfan »

skilled wrote: post #27
jsheard wrote: post #10

Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a

When searching for "Scarlett Johansson", https://i.imgur.com/fgtjBTj.jpeg Never seen these kinds of weird word combinations.

OpenAI has been in the news lately because one of the new 4o voices sounds like Scarlett Johansson in the movie Her.

Allegedly Scarlett Johansson was approached multiple times about being the voice, but turned it down, so they just made a voice that sounds like her.

There were some tweets that had very conspicuous timings that accelerated the drama.

It seems that google is mixing in the largest related search terms.

Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Post by roywiggins »

EGreg wrote: post #44
shombaboor wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

literally, how does anyone find this acceptable? It makes me feel dumb that I find this outrageous, like the emperor's new clothes: y'all can see this too right?

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I haven't seen any howlers myself in Google yet, but Meta suggested to me that electric city buses can be charged "at home."

Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Post by EGreg »

fallingsquirrel wrote: post #60
EGreg wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Maybe it's fake, or maybe it's been fixed since then. Who knows? This is another problem with these closed source services giving "personalized" results that are totally different from one person to the next and one day to the next. How would you propose we authenticate the screenshot?

Who knows!

We need an analogue of this IMHO: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Post by jstummbillig »

Considering how much Google search has shaped my life, I am somewhat* surprised by the amount of people in this thread, who apparently have zero tolerance for continued innovation in this area and the rough edges it brings.

*Oh well, it's hn, after all

Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Post by Exuma »

The original google query has way more params that you might not want to overwrite:

{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:iOSSearchLanguage}{google:prefetchSource}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}

Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Post by tredre3 »

Dwedit wrote: post #34
forrestthewoods wrote: post #5

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now. It’s increasingly rare that I need to switch to Google.

Duckduckgo is just Bing with location-based ads injected into the bottom of your search results.

This is true, but there are less ads than on Bing proper and they are less intrusive. Also no cookies popups or constant rewards notification or flashing icon.

Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Post by user90131313 »

shombaboor wrote: post #18
jsheard wrote: post #10

Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a

literally, how does anyone find this acceptable? It makes me feel dumb that I find this outrageous, like the emperor's new clothes: y'all can see this too right?

It will correct itself soon. Like it will be better at in 5 years because it will. Trust them and learn wrong things.
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