Damn it. WSJ: Google Plans to Make Search More 'Personal' with AI Chat and Video Clips

[highplainsdem]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-search-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-tiktok-67c08870
Archive page at https://archive.ph/elhiG

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The changes represent a response to big shifts in the way people access information on the internet, including the emergence of AI bots like ChatGPT. They would nudge the service further away from its traditional format, known informally as the “10 blue links,” according to company documents and people familiar with the matter.

Google plans to make its search engine more “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a focus on serving young people globally, according to the documents. It plans to incorporate more human voices as part of the shift, supporting content creators in the same way it has historically done with websites, the documents say.

At its annual I/O developer conference this coming week, the search giant is expected to debut new features that allow users to carry out conversations with an artificial-intelligence program, a project code-named “Magi,” said other people familiar with the matter.

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Google search visitors might be more frequently prompted to ask follow-up questions or swipe through visuals such as TikTok videos in response to their queries.

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Fuck this.

I do not need or want a stupid chatbot named Magi telling me to search TikTok videos.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has lost his mind.

Google's search engine is the world's busiest website, and made $162 BILLION in ad revenue last year.

And now they're going to fuck it up, for anyone wanting real information rather than chatbots and TikTok, because ChatGPT and TikTok panicked them.

[mobeau69]

1. YouTube got fucked up so I guess it's time for Google.

[crickets]

2. I haven't used Google search in years. There are good alternatives.

https://www.startpage.com/
https://duckduckgo.com/

Google translate or maps? Sure, on occasion. But the news and web search are no longer useable and haven't been for some time now.

[Goonch]

3. Google's evil eye

[intrepidity]

4. Will they have a button for "Google Classic"?

Just use that, I guess. I gave up on Google search long ago.

[tinrobot]

5. Seems like first three pages of any Google search is nothing but paid links anyways.

If they can fix that with AI, I say go for it.

If they use AI to feed more ads.... then I'll bail for something better.

[WhiteTara]

6. I use duck duck go

[Rebl2]

8. Was just

going to suggest using that. Hope they don’t change too.

[WhiteTara]

9. me too

However, I'm becoming an apostate and I believe in nothing about the human race efforts

[Iggo]

7. It's already more personal the more they leave me the fuck alone.

I don’t need my dictionary, encyclopedia, and yellow pages to be “more personal.”

It’s a task, not an experience.

[crickets]

10. +1

People using a search engine are looking for accurate information, not AI.