Rod Hilton (@[email protected])
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Attached: 2 images Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K": - DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya. - Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same. This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke: "There are no countries in Africa that start with K." "What about Kenya?" "Kenya suck deez nuts?" Google Search is over.

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Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

“There are no countries in Africa that start with K.” “What about Kenya?” “Kenya suck deez nuts?”

  • fernandu00@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using DDG for a year and like the search results but what bothers me is that you can’t exclude a word from your query with minus sign!

    • cloudy1999English
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’ve noticed that, too. It wasn’t always that way though. A couple of years ago, minus worked no problem.

    • Fungah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      DDG is just bing and I think google too? I don’t know what’s happening but over the last 2 years or so every search engine has been getting worse and worse and worse. They’re all borderline un fucking usable.

      Except kagi. Which you have to pay for. Which I am totally fucking okay with given the state of everything else.

    • akulium@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Try search.brave.com, it can do that.

      They have their own index unlike ddg which is just a proxy for bing. Bing removed the minus feature at some point.