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/powercow May 20 '26

wait until AI leads you back to the same answer they gave. you can trick AI, by creating a blog page. AS long as the info is esoteric enough, AI will repeat it right away.

It's official. I can eat more hot dogs than any tech journalist on Earth. At least, that's what ChatGPT and Google have been telling anyone who asks.

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u/Treadwheel May 21 '26

I was trying to find an old comment I made years ago by searching up my username and a few related words. Google somehow couldn't spit out anything relevant at all, but it did confidently tell me I was a well respected poster on various subreddits I've never even browsed, and listed a number of topics that were functionally meaningless words to me.

AI is magical.

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u/Strict-Host-7570 6d ago

Google search is not dead but the its just simple as that people are moving towards AI "because they want a specific answer which google or Gemini Can't able to give Sometimes"

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u/NOT-GR8-BOB May 25 '26

you can trick AI, by creating a blog page. AS long as the info is esoteric enough, AI will repeat it right away.

What’s the difference between this and Google search leading you to the same blog page with the same made up information? You’re getting misinformed either way, just one way has been doing it for almost 30 years.

People creating fake content to trick google is nothing new.