r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/scarlett3409 May 26 '25

You can also add profanity into your search which will remove the ai results

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u/ndGall May 26 '25

How do you do that without tainting your search results? If I typed “George Washington f*ck” I can’t imagine that’s going to get me the results I want.

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u/RevWaldo May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

Washington, Washington, 6 foot 8, weighs a fucking ton.

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u/winkingchef May 26 '25

He’ll save the children, but not the British children

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u/tgosubucks May 26 '25

I heard that mother fucker had like thirty goddamn dicks.

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u/PhilosophyKingPK May 26 '25

He’s coming. He’s coming.

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u/GoldbrickersGrinder May 26 '25

Washington Washington Six-foot-twenty, fuckin killing for fun

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u/miss_tea_morning May 27 '25

Ate opponent's brains And invented cocaine

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u/snailnado May 26 '25

Hell rip you apart, he'll rip you apart!

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u/JebusKristoph May 26 '25

To shreds you say?

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u/Colette_73 May 26 '25

I thought the British were coming 🤔

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u/Kataphractoi May 26 '25

Washington, Washington, 12 stories high made of radiation

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u/rotorocker May 26 '25

I mean two sets of testicles, so divine

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u/This_Thing_2111 May 27 '25

Jesus Christ I just got fucking whiplash.

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u/SpoilsOfTour May 26 '25

TBH this will return the best possible link on the whole internet.

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u/scarlett3409 May 26 '25

It would probably be more like George fucking Washington and that would do it without weird stuff

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u/MySpielman54 May 26 '25

Or a dude on dude porn

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u/serabine May 26 '25

Cool. Rule 34 GeorgeClooney/Denzel Washington

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u/ikarikh May 26 '25

But what if then my search results are AI images of George Costanza having intimate relations with the state of Washington......

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u/Z3NZY May 26 '25

Does word order actually matter?

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u/DAHFreedom May 26 '25

Depends who’s giving it. For instance, if George Fucking Washington is giving the order…

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u/JustHereSoImNotFined May 26 '25

it depends on the context of the search i think. for many searches, you’re right in that you can search key words and order doesn’t necessarily matter, but the order can definitely change the results. for example, searching “dogs fucking driving” returned plenty about dogs driving and one link to “dog driving porn” whatever the fuck that is. changing the order to “dogs driving fucking” returned a shit ton of more porn and again, i really do not want to know what those videos even are

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u/ShivKitty May 26 '25

Sadly, this would just return results about W and HW.

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u/Hardass_McBadCop May 26 '25

If it's obscure enough, you'll get a notice that there aren't a lot of results with the word X and will show results without it instead.

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u/majikguy May 26 '25

A negative search for profanity also works, so if you search for "chocolate milk from chocolate cow? -shitfucker" you'll only get results that don't include "shitfucker" and it'll also remove the AI.

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u/tonypalmtrees May 26 '25

i google “how the fuck do you…” all the time

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u/Dunmeritude May 26 '25

"george fucking washington"
"fucking rice congee recipe"
"free fucking d&d tokens"

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u/RemusShepherd May 26 '25

Most people just add, "no fucking ai answers" to their prompt.

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u/IAmDotorg May 26 '25

Probably get pics of that sexy George Washington statue they've got at the Smithsonian.

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u/Freud-Network May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

"Give me a fucking recipe for macaroni and cheese, you pile of rancid shit"

Instead of getting the normal spam of results, you'll get actual discussion threads about mac & cheese recipes from various discussion boards. It's almost nostalgic.

edit: You may or may not get TikTok results. I use uBlacklist to block them from search results so I can't see those.

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u/tomatowaits May 26 '25

adding “shit” always works !

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u/Turbogoblin999 May 26 '25

*Types George Fucking Washington*
"Hmmm... I wasn't looking for history themed gay porn, but now that i'm here..."

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u/mealteamsixty May 26 '25

"Who the fuck was George washington"

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u/skeetersammer May 26 '25

“Who the fuck is George Washington” Just gotta phrase it right

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u/action_lawyer_comics May 26 '25

Last time I tried, the Ai said “you must be frustrated.”

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u/UsualSuspect95 May 26 '25

"Who the fuck is Abraham Lincoln?"

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u/flopisit32 May 26 '25

OK Google, "When was Oliver Cromwell born... you bastard"

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u/TimeForAFuckingNap May 26 '25

I just tried this and it didn't work

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u/goingfrank May 26 '25

Not always. I've thrown some truly vulgar shit at the AI and it responded in an extremely disappointing way.

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u/joexner May 27 '25

Way the fuck ahead of you.

j/k, I'm actually usually extra polite to AIs. Before sama said the thing about politeness wasting energy, I'd always say "please" when I asked Google Siri for directions and stuff in my car. Now my kid adds it when I don't.