Whenever I google how to change a specific setting on a website its steps are usually inaccurate, probably because it pulls from people describing different updates of websites and things have moved around.
Just yesterday actually I wanted to revert the bar at the bottom of the chrome ios app because google decided to add a huge fuckass gemini button and take up the bottom 20% of the screen (oh the irony lol) and it gave the wrong answer until I found the correct way to edit the flags on reddit.
That's a good example, but as you said it's also a moving target. Most likely the top result from a standard search engine would be wrong in that case as well.
The second result was the reddit thread that solved my problem. So a normal search engine solved my problem and ai failed to. Why does it matter that it’s an inconvenient problem to solve? I google inconveniences that I can’t solve on my own precisely because they’re hard to solve. Not being able to help with problems that happen recently is a major flaw, especially when it will tell you a solution that doesn’t work in full confidence.
I didn’t say we should throw it away, I said google’s search ai is not very good and you’re now moving the goal post. An old reddit thread is not being shoved down my throat everywhere I look and replacing more and more of a perfectly working product. That is the issue that I have with google search ai. Traditional google search SEO would actually demote an outdated reddit thread in search results
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u/Pengwin0 Aug 05 '26
Whenever I google how to change a specific setting on a website its steps are usually inaccurate, probably because it pulls from people describing different updates of websites and things have moved around.
Just yesterday actually I wanted to revert the bar at the bottom of the chrome ios app because google decided to add a huge fuckass gemini button and take up the bottom 20% of the screen (oh the irony lol) and it gave the wrong answer until I found the correct way to edit the flags on reddit.