Why is Google so determined to cannibalize itself?
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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What Google is accomplishing with this change is tighter control of their results.
This is disappointing and only serves the interest of Google.
Before long they will use it to just create their own sites. Their own articles. Why replace just the headline. A whole internet of just google ai generated bs. Just search something on Google and everything from there on is ai generated. All results. All pictures. The maps. Everything. Nothing will be real.
Absolute pricks. "Don't do evil" they said.
AI has biases. News are titled to be biased too. This is grounds for fake news.
Don't, do evil!
~~Don't~~ do evil
Hasn't that been Google's guiding principle for quite some time already?
"Don't be evil" hasn't been an official guiding principle for over a decade, no.
On reddit I would respond with r/woosh
Ah, I was waking up and didn't see the strike through
Both here and on reddit you can just say "whoosh" although it wouldn't really have totally made sense
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Is there any way I can hide AI on Google? I'm using Vivaldi (which is a Chromium browser).
Don't know about Google Search but Duck Duck Go has a specific domain for disabling all AI features. https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
find a searxng instance
You can hide the AI preview using udm14.com or adding &udm=14 query param to your google queries (can be done automatically by adding browser search engine with this param)
You can use the web page, aka udm14. You can also set this in your browser so that typing in the search/address bar directly opens this.
I have no idea if this particular development affects these results, but so far it's been nice. No AI summary, no "similar" advertisement, no "questions about…". Just plain results. Like, I don't know, that old google website.
Wow. Thats horrible. Google has been a shitty search engine for a while now, but this is even worse.
I quit using them as my main search probably 5 years ago. But I get that most people still use it and most people will be misled.
Awful.
What engines would you advise to someone who is thinking about ditching google?
I used duckduckgo for a long time, still a good choice. Now i am using that and Kagi.
The nice thing about either is you can use !bangs to search and get to specific sites quickly.
Thank you. I shall try the Duck one
Not sure are they any better, but I use Ecosia and Qwant. Some prefer also DuckDuckGo.
Sloplines.
Breaking Hallucinations!
Apparently this has been going on for a while but The Verge started sounding the alarm 3 months ago. They know most people won't read more than a couple sentences past a headline if they even open the article at all. Confirmation bias is about to go wild
noai.duckduckgo.com
It offers also news search as well as image and video search. Filtering out AI images. Guaranteed AI summary free.
I may switch to them as my primary provider. They seem to source results from Bing, and with the noai prefix hopefully won't keep turning on AI summary like Ecosia does 😑
Duckduckgo does not only source from Bing.They use sources from everyone but Google and they have their own web crawlers and an index of their own. Their results feel considerably more relevant to me than whatever Bing is doing. '
Have a look here for more infos: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/news-rankings
In some cases I still feel like Google has an edge but those cases become less frequent.
Thanks!
You guys are still using Google?
I'm as surprised as you are.
It's almost as bad as still using Twitter. In 2026.
so many better Google alternatives out there:
- https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
- https://ecosia.org/
- https://searx.space/ (pick any of the 50+ instances)
- https://www.qwant.com/
- https://www.startpage.com/
Don't forget Kagi! (though it isn't technically comparable to the others since it's a paid, but without ads one)
I like the idea, but 5$/mo for 300 searches isn't worth it, and 10$/mo isn't worth it for unlimited searches either, personally.
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I tried looking for an instruction PDF for some stage lights the other day. No amount of "google-fu" could find the right thing. Links labeled as one model showed stuff for other models when clicked, and the god awful summary that it shoves in your face was just full of contradictions of itself. Google is warm trash water at this point.
I find the same thing with vehicle years, I look for say a fuse box layout for a 1985 c20 truck and I will get nothing but genaric trash or stuff for 2021 model years. I used to be able to use "year" but even that has stopped working. Like how do you fuck model and year up?
What the fuck are we supposed to do when the services we use are monopolies which actively seeks to destroy its competition as well as enshittify itself to a point its unusable :|
Time to start self hosting.
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I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!
Goddamn fuckers just won’t stop!!!
So stop using them
I did. Still angers me.
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