If you’re in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google’s generative AI technology, used to appear only if you’ve opted into the Search Generative Experience(SGE) in the Search Labs platform. Now, according to Search Engine Land, Google has started adding the experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the US.” And that is why you could be getting Google’s experimental AI-generated section even if you haven’t switched it on.
It should be illegal to force people to use generative ai to do things it is not needed for.
Seeing Microsoft’s plans to add ai to windows was the last straw that made me change to linux.
Nobody forces you to use Google, and frankly we should all take a little more time to degoogle our lives.
Startpage is what I use at the moment and it’s been fine. Am trying to decouple from the googs too.
Is amusing that bing moved their AI results to the bottom of the page.
They always blocked VPNs so I didn’t even bother to try it.