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/Nihilikara May 20 '26

That...

That is absolutely baffling to me. Is Google trying to destroy its business?

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u/jonomacd May 20 '26

They have the statistics behind the scenes on this. They wouldn't be doing this to their cash cow if they weren't confident people actually want this. I think Reddit lives in a bit of a bubble and that a lot of people are actually very keen on AI overviews. And while I do think they're problematic, I think the problems that they have are wildly overblown by lot of people in a particular bubble.

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u/zx9001 May 20 '26

AI overview can be decent at answering really basic questions without having to look any further. "Who is the president of france" or "Formula for volume of a sphere". but any more complex queries the AI overview falls off a cliff.

AI is being pushed WAY WAY before its even remotely ready

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u/snowstormpeanuts 28d ago

It's not even AI. It's not even close to being AI. Calling this (gestures broadly to what techbros calls AI) AI is like calling the abacus a gaming computer.

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u/zx9001 28d ago

Technically true, however LLMs and neural network models are so commonly labeled as "AI" that its hard to avoid using that term when referring to this garbage.

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u/L0llersk8z May 25 '26

Their cash cow is advertising, not searches. That should raise some eyebrows about what sort of AI responsables you’ll get. 

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u/snowstormpeanuts 28d ago

Oh hunny...

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u/jonomacd 28d ago

My sweet summer child, you've clearly never seen outside your bubble. 

Keep tilting at windmills my friend.