Rod Hilton (@rodhilton@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
Attached: 2 images Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K": - DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya. - Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same. This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke: "There are no countries in Africa that start with K." "What about Kenya?" "Kenya suck deez nuts?" Google Search is over.

Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social

Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

“There are no countries in Africa that start with K.” “What about Kenya?” “Kenya suck deez nuts?”

  • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    Constantly forgetting I changed all my default search engines to DuckDuckGo.

    Went to Google to test this…what a trash website.

    Pushed me to download the app.

    Pops up a recommendation to download Chrome.

    Has clutter on the default search search form.

    Looks more like yahoo than the google of yore

    • raptir@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      What are you browsing in? I use Firefox and never get any of those popups when I use Google.

      • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        This is the mobile experience, which makes it all the worse.

        It’s popping banners like a shit news site.

        • raptir@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I’m using Firefox on Android and am not seeing anything like you’re mentioning.