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You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode (arstechnica.com)
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Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning "to find things on the Internet." Soon, Google might just tell you what's on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0. Everyone will soon see more AI Overviews at the top of the results page, but Google is also testing a more substantial change in the form of AI Mode. This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode.

This marks the debut of Gemini 2.0 in Google search. Google announced the first Gemini 2.0 models in December 2024, beginning with the streamlined Gemini 2.0 Flash. The heavier versions of Gemini 2.0 are still in testing, but Google says it has tuned AI Overviews with this model to offer help with harder questions in the areas of math, coding, and multimodal queries.

With this update, you will begin seeing AI Overviews on more results pages, and minors with Google accounts will see AI results for the first time. In fact, even logged out users will see AI Overviews soon. This is a big change, but it's only the start of Google's plans for AI search.

Gemini 2.0 also powers the new AI Mode for search. It's launching as an opt-in feature via Google's Search Labs, offering a totally new alternative to search as we know it. This custom version of the Gemini large language model (LLM) skips the standard web links that have been part of every Google search thus far.

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[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Oh wow sounds great, can I get in line now to not use it?

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Kagi. But you free loaders would have to pay for something.

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[-] negativeone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Embrace, extend, extinguish, but now it’s Google doing it to the World Wide Web.

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

I noticed today that UDM mode for Google is displaying sponsored results now, too...

[-] moe90@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

yeah udm14 getting pretty bad lately. That is why I moved to startpage which is same Google services without AI and sponsored contents

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

...hmm that's kind of shitty and it uses ten times more energy! Let's go full enshitification!

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[-] blurcosp@leminal.space 8 points 2 months ago

Yup, this was all the motivation I needed to jump ship from Google, fuck those clowns.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Can it be worse than the sanitised results they give you now?

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Of all the sources of truth, why pick auto-complete?

[-] ZeroTerabytes@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 months ago

https://www.startpage.com/

[-] Pondis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Which is EXACTLY why I just moved to using Vivaldi browser and StartPage as a search engine. Fuck these guys.

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[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I noticed Edge would only show me corporate/authority friendly results recently as well oddly cutting down the number of results I see to a very unnaturally short amount of results.

Deleting it and moving to DuckDuckGo which while the corporate friendly things were still at the top, it at least showed me some opposition results.

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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Alphabet/Google needs to fire their CEO. He’s an obvious idiot, not good with employees, not good with investors, and not good at lobbying. That’s like 99% of a CEO’s job. Just get rid of him and Google’s stock price will probably jump 20%.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I didn't expect this. You mean it doesn't have ads? All I tend to get for hits on Google are paid search results anyway. Surely they'll soon bring some ad links into these results.

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[-] hellerphant@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 months ago

I’m so glad I switched to Kagi. The writing was on the wall once they started rolling out the AI suggestions wide.

[-] LemurAppointments@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

This is exactly why I'm working so hard to eradicate the verb "to google" from my vocabulary. I switched to DuckDuckGo (which then started providing AI summaries, but allowed an easy opt-out).

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[-] grumt@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Been using 4get for some time now, I don't think a search engine can get better than this

[-] arcterus 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I looked into this a while back and came to the conclusion that the dev didn't seem trustworthy. Also, just looking on the homepage, the images it showed me were a dildo with "4get" stuck on it using a sticky note and a modified manga panel about beating women. Not sure I'd want to use something like that in public.

[-] grumt@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah, the dev seems kinda like a shitposter ngl (although there are some funny pictures in the front page)

However, I configured it as my default search engine, so I never go to the front page. Also, at least is free and open source (AGPL)

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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Honestly that type of anti-corporate imagery makes me trust them more

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[-] knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

i haven't used Google for search in years. duck duck go ftw

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