Google is Putting AI Mode Right in Search

A "small percentage" of Google's users in the US will begin seeing an AI Mode tab in Google Search "in the coming weeks," the company said Thursday, marking the tool's first deployment outside the company's experimental Labs environment.

Unlike traditional search results that display URLs based on user queries, AI Mode generates conversational responses from Google's search index. The feature will appear as a dedicated tab positioned before the standard "All," "Images," and other search filters. The deployment represents Google's direct challenge to LLM-powered search engines like Perplexity and ChatGPT.

AI Mode differs from existing AI Overviews in Google Search, which merely insert AI summaries between the search box and web results.

They juuuust missed it

[CEC-P]

What we were actually asking them to do is remove all that inaccurate, plagiarizing, hallucinating bullshit from the page completely so it stops giving me wrong instructions about IT management.

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[TwistedGreen]

What do you mean? I love it when I search for something very specific and it ignores me and gives me results for something else instead!

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[nightflameauto]

What do you mean? I love it when I search for something very specific and it ignores me and gives me results for something else instead!

"Did you actually mean..." is one of my least favorite Google features. No, Google, if I actually meant something else, I would have typed something else. I don't care that it doesn't fit some higher ranking result that's been paid for, I spelled it the way I spelled it for a reason. Don't try your digital voodoo to push your ads on me.

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[CEC-P]

Oh no no no. It's "How do I configure thing in server 2016 to do thing" and it mixes five different articles together into a very confident and very wrong set of instructions that doesn't solve the problem. That's far worse.

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[Tarlus]

I too rely on Google to manage my IT resources

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[CEC-P]

Only thing I ever look up is server config stuff and some network config, cause that's my lowest skill set. I already know how to do almost everything in desktop OSes and hardware.

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[Big Hairy Gorilla]

I had same problem.. some guy here said just use Ublock Origin ... there were other ad blockers that work too...
My only real problem was that those things didn't work in my older firefox browser .. I did the upgrade and Ublock and the other did install... worked for me. No more Temu ads.

get a late model browser and ublock origin, and enjoy yelling at your respected colleagues again :-)

Re: Off topic (dumb topic anyway)

[newcastlejon]

*cries in Safari*

I had a weird interaction

[MpVpRb]

...with Gemini
I asked it for a graph and it replied something like
"I can't display the graph but you can search for it using these terms"
WTF?
A google tool can't use google?

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[Big Hairy Gorilla]

Yep. I'll take your word for it that Gemini won't search the web, but ChatGPT doesn't. I asked it when I started using it, and it said straight up that it does not go out and search the web.

YOU WILL TAKE IT AND YOU WILL LOVE IT!

[nightflameauto]

Seems the tech companies have completely abandoned giving users what they want in favor of forcing whatever their current hype-cycle is based on. AI isn't the first thing being shoved at us forcefully whether we want it or not, but it's definitely the most egregious, across-the-board example. Maybe, if they could come up with a compelling use-case for it, people would gladly try using it. Instead, we keep getting it slammed into our faces while we repeatedly say, "Nah, I'm good."

Tech Companies are like real

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[larryjoe]

Seems the tech companies have completely abandoned giving users what they want in favor of forcing whatever their current hype-cycle is based on.

This is a tab, sort like images and shopping. If I don't want it, I ignore those few pixels on the screen. I'm not sure where the outrage comes from. Sure, if the list of URLs is replaced by the AI stuff, okay. But, this is something that most people won't even notice.

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[ewibble]

This maybe but the AI summary is not, I want an option saying I don't trust it so stop making me skip over it (and the ads) every search.

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[Hadlock]

Corporations first goals is to provide value to share holders, so, creating growth and increasing value is in line with chasing trends and potential growth, yeah. In the not too distant past they created a B corp which isn't beholden to shareholders to create value which solves some of these inherent problems, but they're rare, and get out-competed by non-B corps which get better investment.

Google session of the not-too-distant future

[Waffle Iron]

> What were the reasons for the deposal of King Edward II?

That's an excellent question! There were several interesting reasons for the deposal of King Edward II.

However, based on my analysis of your life history, I think that you might be more interested in nutritional supplements that can help with your chronic back pain. Here is a list of links to our retail partners that can ship you free trials overnight to get started: ...

Fucked no matter what

[TheMiddleRoad]

You have three choices:
1. Terrible answers from AI generated websites.
2. Terrible answers from bots on Wikipedia and Reddit.
3. Terrible answers from Google AI, which trained on AI generated websites, AI generated Wikipedia, and AI generated Reddit.

Google

[RitchCraft]

Google search sucks and has sucked for years now. Sucking even more in the future I see. Sucks so bad Sundar Pichai must feel just as sucky as the failure James Dyson does. Sucks to be them I guess.

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[mjwx]

Google search sucks and has sucked for years now. Sucking even more in the future I see. Sucks so bad Sundar Pichai must feel just as sucky as the failure James Dyson does. Sucks to be them I guess.

I take it you're not familiar with the Dyson product range, their best products don't suck at all, in fact, their best products blow.

lmgtfy

[LinuxRulz]

I'm hoping they've trained their AI with diverse enough sources to return results wrapped in letmegooglethat.com. The irony of such a sassy reply would be amazing.

Open your throat...

[rknop]

(shove) you (shove) will (shove) take (shove) our (shove) ai (shove) technology (shove) and (shove) you (shove) will (shove) like (shove) it.

After all, what is good for Google is good for America, right?

Been seeing this for weeks?

[crobarcro]

I've been seeing this for weeks, based in the UK have they been testing it? I just assumed everyone was getting this.

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[crobarcro]

ok, I didn't read the whole summary.

Correction

[jenningsthecat]

Google is Putting AI Mode Right in Search

Google is Putting AI Mode Wrong in Search

See the signs

[allo]

Users want answer machines for a long time, that's why Google ignores your search query and guesses what you may have meant. Users also want results that work nicely with voice assistants. New search engines like Perplexity provide this. If Google sticks to a static result list, it will not be attractive to the mass of users who don't want to know how computers or search engines are used, but want answers to their natural language questions.

Already see AI search results & it's noted

[bsdetector101]

Already see AI search results for weeks and at bottom of section it says that it is AI generated ! Mostly, but has whacko results at times that are not revelant.