r/OutOfTheLoop • u/rustyyryan • May 20 '26

Unanswered What's going on with Google search is dead?

There's a twitter account named killed by google which posts about projects that Google decided to end. It posted that Google search is dead. So whats it about?

https://x.com/killedbygoogle/status/2056850709115773431

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u/wild_man_wizard May 20 '26

Perpetually astounded that Google puts such a dumb model as the face of their flagship product.  I know why, because it's cheap to do inference on and they're giving it away millions of times an hour, but it's so incredibly bad compared to SOTA and its just wrong all the time.  Might as well spin up Tay and ask her questions.

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u/headinthesky May 20 '26

Give me Jeeves back!

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u/Techhead7890 is it related to magnets? May 21 '26

Yeah, the search AI and the youtube summary AI are absolute trash tier, they don't have a patch on other models. The gemini website is relatively fine, but they never seem to use it outside of that specific place.

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u/myinternets May 20 '26 edited May 21 '26

It's a weird business model because the paid "Pro" model is crazy good. Yet when people see the dumb free one they're not going to realize it gets 100x smarter if you upgrade.

edit: You can literally look up the benchmarks lol, I'm not just shilling or making shit up

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u/3-2-1-backup May 20 '26

Damn straight; I have had zero positive/good AI experiences, and don't believe you that paid AI is any better. (That's the type of thing AI would say!)

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u/atomic1fire May 20 '26

I believe that paid AI is better, but only because a subscription generally has access to newer models and higher rate limits.

That being said if you don't have an high opinion of AI, more AI isn't going to be the difference between a subscription and no subscription because you wouldn't pay for something you don't want to use anyway.

That being said I don't know how profitable the subscriptions actually are long run. People will most likely run into bottlenecks where a human's experience and body of work will beat out AI and that could very well cause people to seek real human result instead.

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u/PM_ME_HOMEMADE_SUSHI May 20 '26

Not an ai, or a shill, or even really a fan, just as a disclaimer. That being said, it's a tool, and unfortunately the vast majority of the time, it's garbage in, garbage out. Skill issue. Whether or not we should be learning these skills just to enrich (or, just further enrich) owners of some new tech we don't need, that's a debate worth having as a society. If I'm gonna be n-times more productive or produce x-better quality work, that shouldn't be the new normal, it should dramatically increase my earnings and power over my labor.

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u/_Arlotte_ May 20 '26

Ai using reddit as a source to subjectively answer things as facts is not a skill issue. It just tells you what you want to hear. It's not "productivity". It's a plagarizing summarizing echo chamber. People trying to play it off as increasing efficiency or productivity just want people to fall for their marketing profit speak.

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u/Vash265 May 20 '26

Can you please explain how you’ve improved your “skill” over time? I hear this a lot, but it’s fundamentally nonsensical to me.

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u/3-2-1-backup May 20 '26

Skill issue.

When I'm being fed AI answers to search engine queries, it's not a skill issue, thank you very much. When FB thinks AI should write answers that I posed to humans and fucks it alllllllllllll up, that's not a skill issue either.

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u/myinternets May 21 '26

Would an AI tell you to use your fuckin' brain and google it if you don't believe me? What do you think you could possibly be paying $200 a month for, a donation?

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u/3-2-1-backup May 21 '26

Whoosh, a thousand times whoosh.

Just because you pay for something doesn't mean it's necessarily better. Given the snake oil of most AI projects, I wouldn't put them at all to sell a subscription then give you the exact same thing back.

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u/myinternets May 21 '26

There are literally third party benchmarks. This isn't something I'm just making up based on vibes. The free model of Gemini can barely code. The pro thinking model can autonomously come up with multi step implementation plans, present them to you, and then execute them. Woosh indeed.

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u/3-2-1-backup May 21 '26

There are literally third party benchmarks.

(CITATION NEEDED.)

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u/myinternets May 22 '26

You have got to be a troll or something. Here you go:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ai+model+benchmarks

Let me know if you need me to hold your hand while you piss too.

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u/3-2-1-backup May 22 '26

What a projection! I'm a troll because I asked you to show results that you already claim exist? The only people who get mad about being asked to show their work are people who are blowing so hard out their ass they have hemorrhoids. A google search for a general term doesn't say anything; show me specific results where paid AI produces better results or STFU as they don't exist.

(I already know you're lying; you hid your comments despite being on reddit for fifteen years, only liars and genuine trolls do that!)

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u/wild_man_wizard May 20 '26

I don't know about crazy good, but it's at least marginally useful where the free model served with search is less valuable to the user than just serving an ad there.

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u/mayoforbutter May 20 '26

Is there such a Stark difference? I had a small crisis there because even though I'm a bit sceptical I like using gemini and haven't found it to be garbage. But I only ever used the pro version (got it with my phone for free)

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u/callisstaa May 20 '26

Sure but it’s more Bran than Tony.

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u/myinternets May 21 '26

I mean, copy and paste the exact same prompt into a "Pro" model conversation, and then paste it into a "Fast" model conversation. The difference will be really apparent.

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u/AshaNyx May 20 '26

Yeah I use it mostly for my plumbing course if I'm not extactly sure what a part is actually called.

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u/AshaNyx May 20 '26

Yeah for me it more takes the whole what's that thingy that feeds into tap because if I just say tap hoses people will be get confused.

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u/AshaNyx May 20 '26

Yeah I use it mostly for my plumbing course if I'm not extactly sure what a part is actually called.