News Google is killing the web with AI Overviews – I made an extension to block them

[apiltch]

The world is cheering for the AI chatbots to replace Goolge. Ofc they don't want their empire to be destroyed. What do you expect them to do? Just sitting and letting AI chatbots eat their market share gradually?
The younger generations don't want to do searches anymore, they prefer AI to tell them what to do in one paragraph.

Keeping traditional search as it is, people will call you "no innovation, a dinosaur". Trying to evolve, adding AI features, then you will be labeled "killing open web". Poor Google, they are destined to lose no matter what they do lol.

Google could have continued to have AI chat as a separate tab without polluting the core product with it. If people wanted to switch to getting answers from AI, they could have. It forced bad information on the user.

Also, I'll quote my second grade teacher who lectured me when I got caught disrupting class and said it was ok because the other kids were doing it. "If he jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?"

Google is wealthy enough to be a leader. It doesn't have to do something just because ChatGPT and Microsoft are doing it. This isn't kindergarten.

 

[apiltch]

No one is saying it isn't, it can also spew wrong and incomplete results. Its never a bad thing to be able to do be able to do your own research and find your own answers.

There's a place and a time for every technology. GAI continues to hallucinate and, even when it is correct, it is not "responsible" for whatever advice it gives. If I write an article with bad advice, I will hear about it from the readers. Who stands behind the advice given by the AI bot? Whose opinion is it? And do you trust them? Why should you?

 

[apiltch]

I'm thinking to use Yandex as my default search engine, considering how censored (and virtually useless) Google has become, but there's a bitter irony in a (Google) Chrome extension to bypass a Google (Search) feature. The three persons who are interested in this might appreciated it, but beyond that....?

I'd like to start my own search engine called "Just Search" that is pure search.

 

[Mr Majestyk]

I'd like to start my own search engine called "Just Search" that is pure search.

I've heard that it takes billions of dollars to develop a search engine, and even Apple won't bother. There are only 3: Google, Bing and Yandex and no one outside Russia really touches that.

 

[aemillernyc]

Find out how to get rid of AI overviews and other unwanted parts of search.

Google is killing the web with AI Overviews – I made an extension to block them : Read more

I think about this all the time. Thank you! I was only able to find your article so quickly because I turned on the "web" function below the search bar on Google. It seemed to kill AI Overview--for the most part--so far...

 

[dmylrea]

Interesting how everyone is against the AI Overview because it can be inaccurate, but before that, the Google results for many of my searches were just as irrelevant or very outdated and just impossible to find the answer I was looking for! Personally, I've found the AI overview on Google searches to be the answer I needed MOST of the time, and if it isn't I can continue looking down the page for more relevant links. Are people just so unable to adjust they'd just rather skip the AI overview and go to a list of mostly old, irrelevant results?