Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a</a>
Adding to the litany of bad google ideas from the past 10+ years:<p>- Killing google reader<p>- Pointless UI changes<p>- Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other.<p>- Stadia fiasco<p>- Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT<p>What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lack of coherency? Kind of feels like they have no clear vision in the "Google Ecosystem", and are hopping on the AI bandwagon with hopes it'll ride them into the future.
I turned off AI Overview in Google by switching to Kagi a few months back :P<p>Seriously though. I'm waiting for the day that Google indexes all websites using embeddings into a massive vector database, so that Gemini can interact directly with all the indexed websites.
Thanks, I appreciate the detailed instructions. Just did all of my browsers to escape the AI. (Which in most cases looked like the first choice just reworded some.<p>OTOH, I'm thinking about clicking that Make Default button on DuckDuckGo and skipping the entire mess.
AI Overview has been embarrassingly bad and wrong on many things. Often making clearly incomprehensible assertions, sometimes with numbers that disagree within the course of a single sentence.
I'm really curious - how will this affect sites that monetize off of affiliate links and ads? It seems to me that AI summarization and overview will deter, at the minimum reduce, the number of page clicks and traffic to sites that are producing information.
100% of searches I do are from commandline.<p>For most queries, I get ~100 links, up to a limit of about 250-300. No blue links, just black and white. People complain about the quality of Google search. The complaint I have is the limited number of results. I have custom programs that process SERPs and I use search not only for "search" but for also for "discovery"; I want a maximum number of results, several hundred at least. In the days of AltaVista I could get thousands.<p>Having used this commandline search method for decades, there does not seem to be any effect of "search history" on the results I get. All the search engines appear to rely on Javascript to "learn" about www users.<p>Whereas if I do a search in a popular browser, an absurdly large program that runs other peoples' Javascript indiscriminantly, I can easily see how search history is being used to modify the results. It's comically bad. And that is what most people seem to complain about.
Google's PMs are doing a new experiment. How much crap can they add to the search homepage without an ounce lost in their stock price?<p>Google has enough momentum that they could turn it into an ads only search engine and their revenue would still go up.<p>The default traffic they get from Chrome, Android and default iOS search engine is almost half the planet.<p>Microsoft could have eaten big chunks of this if their interface was any better but its a worse ad infested search engine.<p>There are smaller players but none have the reach that Google does.<p>Apple should make their own search engine, but under Tim Cook they are afraid to take big swings.
I’m not an AI maximalist by any means but something that summarizes things that I already have context for like “syntax to do X in language Y” I’d much rather see a summary than an ad riddled webpage.
If only Safari supported OpenSearch, or at least manually defined custom search engines. Apple's greed is getting more and more frustrating as a user.<p>That said, I personally like Google's AI overviews. What I find much more frustrating is the "reels-like" UI the mobile page devolves into when scrolling past the first 10 or so results. I really wish there was a way to get one without the other.
The original google query has way more params that you might not want to overwrite:<p>{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}
I was watching a, 2 year old tutorial and the person in the video searched on Google and it looked very minimalistic and simple, kinda like how Brave Search does but now it's just the opposite. Everything looks very busy.
Is there any way to do a Web search with DDG bangs? I checked their list but didn't see an option. I occasionally use !g as a fallback search but recently started seeing this AI slop taking over the top of the results page, making it even harder to find a decent result.
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.<p>*Oh well, it's hn, after all
There is another way to disable this and other annoyances with a lot less effort... Just check <a href="https://duckduckgo.com" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com</a> for more information.
Not sure what the fuss is about. I've actually found the overviews to be quite helpful for a bunch of my searches since it was turned on. My impression so far has been nothing but positive.<p>Is it a principles thing or are people really hating on having to scroll past a paragraph or two? If it's the former, well good luck with that.<p>In general, Google is really undermining their whole business model with the AI Overview paragraph as it will take away from their AdWord link revenue just as much as organic traffic to other sites.<p>Once Google realizes this, they'll inevitably have to manipulate the AI paragraph content for commercial reasons. That'll be fun! Then everyone will look back on the current "clean" AI output with fondness.
the author did this as a showhn a few days ago
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392913">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392913</a>
FWIW the Firefox instructions don't seem to apply to Ubuntu (at least under GNOME, can't speak for any other DE). There's no "three dots," just right click on the address bar, then choose "Add Google Web" from the context menu.<p>Alternatively, you can avoid this nonsense entirely by using DuckDuckGo, or StartPage, or Kagi, or any number of other totally competent search engines.