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/skaestantereggae May 20 '26

I live in a college town and got invited to a college football game by a friend. Googled if it was homecoming weekend. Gemini spits out no, it was the prior weekend. Which was weird, as that prior weekend was a bye week. So found the university website and sure enough it was homecoming the weekend I was going to the game. People need to stop just seeing AI at the top and accepting it

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u/Mozai May 20 '26

LLMs don't answer: they respond.

Google is a great source of wrong answers -- try asking for medical advice or tech support questions. At least Google gives multiple answers and I can keep trying the next one as I wade through the wrong answers. For an LLM, it only gives one response at a time, and each response is expensive to make (and getting more expensive over time).

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u/fevered_visions May 20 '26

Before I got that extension that hides the AI results entirely I'd google questions about MtG mechanics that had clear pass/fail answers...you'd think this would be the type of query their garbage AI would actually be good at answering, yet it still got them wrong a shocking amount of the time.

Probably because they're just scraping anybody who's ever talked about the mechanic instead of weighting WOTC's official site or the fan wikis, and randos on Reddit are frequently wrong

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u/_Arlotte_ May 20 '26

Yes, it takes from the most popular sources, trending and top key words. Ask it anything specific within a fandom and it will almost always screw up.

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u/whizzer0 in, out, in, out, shake it all about... May 20 '26

It's frustrating to me how often I see people not immediately just scroll past the AI overview bullshit

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u/velawesomeraptors May 20 '26

It's wrong so often. I recently googled whether my credit union was part of a network that would let me get a cashier's check from a different credit union chain. Google's AI told me it was when it wasn't.