Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.
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I’d much rather just take my searches elsewhere.
I’d do that, if I got better results elsewhere - so far, for my purposes, when I try DDG or Bing or Brave or whatever, I’m not impressed.
Neither am I - but the results usually aren’t worse than Google’s, and with fewer ads.
I may need to give Kagi a try though.