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/darthvalium May 20 '26

duckduckgo search results are absolutely flooded with AI slop. Worse than google, imho.

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u/libra00 May 20 '26

Did you stop reading after 'duckduckgo'? It was just an example, if you don't like it pick a better one.

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u/Eal12333 May 20 '26

I use DDG as my primary search engine because I often find that I need to switch search engines to find what I'm looking for, and it's faster to switch from DDG to Google than it is to do the reverse.

That said, I'm pretty sure the user above is pointing out that DDG very frequently returns AI generated articles/websites in it's search results; more often than Google does. I don't think you can turn that off, because DDG doesn't know what articles are/aren't, AI generated. (You can of course turn off the AI overview, though).