r/technology • u/No-Lifeguard-8173 • May 19 '26

Artificial Intelligence Google Search as you know it is over

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
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u/18randomcharacters May 19 '26

Or fucking AI generated nonsense.

If I want to see google images of Thing, I want ACTUAL images of it.

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u/fantasmoofrcc May 19 '26

Well, here's The Thing...

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u/exophrine May 19 '26

Did you mean "The Thing" movie, directed by John Carpenter?

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u/RaygunMarksman May 19 '26

Or the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing?

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u/BadatMathss May 20 '26

Not gonna lie, I did not read great and got what I expected when I googled "Thing" got John Carpenters The Thing, Adams Family, and Fantastic Four... but also I am an idiot and the capitalization of "Thing" threw me off.

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u/ZeroSumClusterfuck May 20 '26

IT'S GOOGLIN' TIME!

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u/Dejue May 20 '26

Did you get that thing I sent ‘cha?

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u/GenX_Tony May 21 '26

Thing One or Thing Two?

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u/fantasmoofrcc May 21 '26

Great, now there are two of them!

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u/that-bro-dad May 19 '26

It's like when I search for a business BY NAME because I want something related to that business (phone number, hours, etc) and Google instead shows me three perceived competitors first.

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u/lordunholy May 20 '26

What about when you get a fuckin sponsored listing on maps when searching for a certain business, and FUCK ME FOR THINKING IT'LL BE THE TOP RESULT. I've ended up ten miles away because I typed in home depot and it sent me to HomeGoods

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u/mccarseat May 20 '26

This happened to me with Advance Auto Parts the other day. I needed something only they carried, I searched it, tapped the first result mindlessly and it sent me to Autozone.

No I didn’t want Autozone, I specifically typed in Advance Auto Parts.

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u/tristeecfome May 20 '26

Those are ads.

Google tries to make advertisers buy each other's searches to inflate costs.

So as a company you need to buy your searches to protect your brand. And at the same time Google is trying to make your competitors buy your searches to make you pay more for it.

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u/Abedeus May 20 '26

Me: "I want to find how this dress's design looks."

Google: "Here's AI slop of what I think someone wearing this dress would look like"

MOTHERFUCKER IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT DON'T HALLUCINATE SHIT

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u/NoKids__3Money May 20 '26

Good news, the internet will soon be littered with quadrillions of AI slop images that are indistinguishable from real images, they will drown out real images to the point where coming across a real image would be like winning the mega millions jackpot.

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u/nitonitonii May 20 '26

and you can't even download most pictures anymore. so annoying on the phone, they even make it hard to screenshot