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Google snippet claims no countries in Africa starting with K

29 pointsby shadowtreealmost 2 years ago

6 comments

sseagullalmost 2 years ago
This seems to come from a joke, which some (AI-generated?) sites take literally.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;teenagers&#x2F;comments&#x2F;o8i3as&#x2F;fun_fact_theres_not_a_single_country_in_africa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;teenagers&#x2F;comments&#x2F;o8i3as&#x2F;fun_fact_...</a>
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polytelyalmost 2 years ago
Google is such an embarrassing product. All that money and resources and this is the best they can do?
slyallalmost 2 years ago
Works okay for me. I get a feature snippet saying:<p>&quot;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&quot;<p>with &quot;Kenya&quot; highlighted.<p>Links to spammy looking site <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redlinels.com&#x2F;countries-that-start-with-k-countries-beginning-with-the-letter-k&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redlinels.com&#x2F;countries-that-start-with-k-countr...</a>
thfuranalmost 2 years ago
The &quot;people also ask&quot; snippets seem to be garbage pretty often as well.
mikhailfrancoalmost 2 years ago
All countries starting with &#x27;I&#x27; lie approximately on a line (great circle): Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Iraq, Iran, India, Indonesia.<p>Note that Ivory Coast starts with &#x27;C&#x27; (in French).
shadowtreealmost 2 years ago
When Chat GPT content attacks.