Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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    16 months ago

    Have you just, I dunno, used Bing?

    Gonna be an unpopular opinion, but for me Bing is more useful than DDG. Note that I didn’t say, “better”… I know that increase in relevance of results for Bing stems from the fact that they roll all my historical info into what they serve up.

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      16 months ago

      I used Bing by default for several months just because that’s what my work laptop’s browser had for default.

      I never directly compared those results to DDG, but 9/10 times I would get frustrated by the lack of relevant results and go back to Google, where I’d find something useful on the first page of results.

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        16 months ago

        Interesting! Did your results have that copilot summary thing? I get most of my answers there without having to visit a handful of ad-laden sites myself, though it also cites its references in case I don’t trust the summary.

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          16 months ago

          Not so much, maybe towards the last month of that period defaulting to Bing. I think it was still being constantly rebranded then. It was still pretty new, so I never really trusted it for anything and just went to the sites in the results.