Google has turned to shit

[Amata]

Thank you for this! I saw this earlier today when I was on my cell phone, and I replied, but I apparently failed to react to your post. You see, when I use my phone without my reading glasses, it's sort of like Mr. Magoo, if you know what I mean. I have been working all day and then I came back home so tired that I passed out for nearly 3 hours. I'm going to try your suggestion and I'll let you know if it works.

Sometimes I feel as though technology jumps ahead of people's intelligence. It's like somebody comes up with something that's really smart, and then people use it before they know how to.

Many years ago, I called someone and their answering machine picked up. For some reason, I did not feel like leaving a message. I hung up, and then some guy called me immediately and the first thing he said was, "You didn't leave leave a message." Apparently, it was very important to him to not miss a call, yet he let his machine answer the call, rather than himself, and took the chance that someone might hang up without leaving a message. (Besides that new piece of technology, he also had a call back feature on his phone line.)

My point is that answering machines have their place, as so does AI, but people don't need to be needlessly forced to use these things. I am university educated in business management, and one thing that I was taught was that people have less resistance to change when they have been made a part of the change process. To put it another way, people don't like to have shit forced on them and they tend to resist it.

Response 2.

In my view, the present day powers that be are on an endless mission to do just that: force stuff down people's throats, using cunning (not a play upon your user name) strategies to get us to open our mouths wider and wider, enabling Big Tech to carry on the massive deep throating. And many willingly cooperate especially young people, to not be left behind in the competition "who has the coolest phone/tablet/gadgets etc". Endless exploitation of people's egos, weaknesses and their taste for so called convenience.
Big Tech thinks: keep pushing, they'll get used to it!

 

[CunningLinguist]

Response 2.

In my view, the present day powers that be are on an endless mission to do just that: force stuff down people's throats, using cunning (not a play upon your user name) strategies to get us to open our mouths wider and wider, enabling Big Tech to carry on the massive deep throating. And many willingly cooperate especially young people, to not be left behind in the competition "who has the coolest phone/tablet/gadgets etc". Endless exploitation of people's egos, weaknesses and their taste for so called convenience.
Big Tech thinks: keep pushing, they'll get used to it!

That's how I feel. I have always refused to use "the cloud" for sensitive documents of any type. I started to do business on my cell phone back in the early days, and then I realized that if somebody manages to get a hold of my cell phone, and fucked. I have separate, non-crucial accounts on my cell phone, and I refuse to do any business with it. If someone steals my cell phone, all they have is a phone. Those are just a couple of examples. All of my devices have tried to get me to use the cloud, and I even had an officer at the bank recently explained to me why I should be using the bank's app to do my banking.

I feel sorry for the people that don't think for themselves.

 

[Amata]

That's how I feel. I have always refused to use "the cloud" for sensitive documents of any type. I started to do business on my cell phone back in the early days, and then I realized that if somebody manages to get a hold of my cell phone, and fucked. I have separate, non-crucial accounts on my cell phone, and I refuse to do any business with it. If someone steals my cell phone, all they have is a phone. Those are just a couple of examples. All of my devices have tried to get me to use the cloud, and I even had an officer at the bank recently explained to me why I should be using the bank's app to do my banking.

I feel sorry for the people that don't think for themselves.

Oh, smart phones.... those have descended upon this earth like a huge swarm of insects, silent but ominous, altering people's brains, not unlike the "Soma" in Brave New World, and even 1 second without their smart phone people will turn pale and start shaking all over.
I had one, for a couple of years, the thing was annoying, it got me nervous, so I ditched it. Now I just use a dumb phone. No doubt society will force me to start the smart phone agony all over again.
I don't want to burst your bubble BUT I predict (95 % certainty) that banks, globally, will switch to solely the app, quitting their web login. Some are already on this dreaded path. Here comes the deep throating again....

 

[dwdays]

I only use Ask Jeeves

 

[CunningLinguist]

1. Open: your browser and go to Google.
2. Sign in: to your Google Account (don't use Incognito mode).
3. Click on the "Labs" icon: (or the beaker icon) at the top of the page.
4. • Find: "AI Overviews and more" in the list of features.
   • Toggle: the feature off.

Google says "Turn this experiment on or off. Turning this off does not disable AI Overviews in Search outside of Labs."
It's true - I had already turned it off and it didn't help anything.

Using the "Web" Filter (Temporary)

1. • Perform a search: on Google.
   • Look for the filter options: below the search bar.
   • Tap or click on the "Web" tab: to see only traditional search results, bypassing the AI Overview.

That does not appear on my screen. Right now I'm using chrome on a Windows 10 machine.

Using Chrome's Site Search Settings (More Permanent)

1. • Navigate: to your Chrome browser's search engine settings: chrome://settings/searchEngines.
   • Click: the "Add" button next to Site search.
     • • Name: Google (Web)
       • Shortcut: google.com
       • URL: {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s
   • Click: "Add".
   • Click: the three-dot menu next to the new entry and select "Make default".

That worked!! @Amata - you are my heroine! (I think I read that someone said you were a female)
Thank you so much - this looks like the way things used to be.

BTW, when I checked out the extension called Bye Bye AI, some people had written that it stopped working and so I didn't even try it. I'll see how this works out, but it's working right now. Thanks again!

 

[D.O.A.]

Just fyi other search engines will work better now thanks to a judge.

Tl;dr of it

Sept 2, September 2 - A judge ruled on Tuesday that Alpabet's Google must share search data with competitors but rejected prosecutors' bid to make the internet giant sell off its popular Chrome browser and Android operating system.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-comes-next-googles-antitrust-case-over-search-2025-09-02/

 

[Amata]

Google says "Turn this experiment on or off. Turning this off does not disable AI Overviews in Search outside of Labs."
It's true - I had already turned it off and it didn't help anything.



That does not appear on my screen. Right now I'm using chrome on a Windows 10 machine.



That worked!! @Amata - you are my heroine! (I think I read that someone said you were a female)
Thank you so much - this looks like the way things used to be.

BTW, when I checked out the extension called Bye Bye AI, some people had written that it stopped working and so I didn't even try it. I'll see how this works out, but it's working right now. Thanks again!

Oh good! Glad that it worked for you!

Hopefully some or other Google genius doesn't decide to "fix it" and start tampering.

(Yes, I am female, by birth and OK with it, I need to add, to distinguish myself from several types of "novelty" females - so I am "cis" I think they call it.)

 

[Meows4Life]

I have been using Google pretty much every day for many years, but it seems to be getting worse with each passing day, and now I think I'm going to have to use a different search engine. I have always put in my queries, Google showed me webpages, and I would usually find the answer to my question. Now it changes my question to many different variations, none of which are pertinent to what I'm trying to find out. Then it shows me a shitload of ads.

The AI is absolutely bat shit crazy. It gives me stupid opinions about my searches, and I have not found an option to disable AI.

Today I was thinking about the George Floyd incident and how the media only talks about what the officers did, but I could not remember anyone actually saying whether Floyd had fought with the police. I googled it with my cell phone. What do you know? Floyd did not resist at the moment extreme force was used. That's not what I asked. I'm surprised Google didn't tell me that Floyd did not resist once he was dead. Google had changed my question so that it could answer a different question for the purpose of concealing the fact that Floyd had fought with the police.

I went home and put the exact same query into Google, but on my computer. Now I got a very different answer.

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I have been using Google pretty much every day of my life for years, and now it's very difficult for me to get an answer to any of my questions. I hate woke people, and I know that they are responsible for programming the stupid goddamn AI. The other day I put in query about the races of man, and Google pretty much called me a racist. Okay, they happen to be correct that time, but not because I was studying about the races of man.

WTF??

It would seem that they belive that they are the #1 search engine and are trying to make it so you use/rely on their ai summery when searching instead of showing you helpful links. If you've noticed the top results are almost always ads or sponsored meaning whoever paid the most regardless or how reputable their site is gets put on top. Same with products. They didn't make much originally but now it seems like they are trying to train their ai and make as much money as they can having whoever has deeper pockets pay to be seen as they are typically the default search engine now.

 

[CunningLinguist]

Just fyi other search engines will work better now thanks to a judge.

Tl;dr of it

Sept 2, September 2 - A judge ruled on Tuesday that Alpabet's Google must share search data with competitors but rejected prosecutors' bid to make the internet giant sell off its popular Chrome browser and Android operating system.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-comes-next-googles-antitrust-case-over-search-2025-09-02/

Excellent! I'd rather switch than fight (with Google.)

 

[CunningLinguist]

Oh good! Glad that it worked for you!

Hopefully some or other Google genius doesn't decide to "fix it" and start tampering.

(Yes, I am female, by birth and OK with it, I need to add, to distinguish myself from several types of "novelty" females - so I am "cis" I think they call it.)

Where I live, Western North Carolina, some people put pronouns after their name to let people know how to refer to them. Things have gotten very weird.

 

[CunningLinguist]

It would seem that they belive that they are the #1 search engine and are trying to make it so you use/rely on their ai summery when searching instead of showing you helpful links. If you've noticed the top results are almost always ads or sponsored meaning whoever paid the most regardless or how reputable their site is gets put on top. Same with products. They didn't make much originally but now it seems like they are trying to train their ai and make as much money as they can having whoever has deeper pockets pay to be seen as they are typically the default search engine now.

That's what I was saying. I have been going to Google to find webpages, and I don't want to know what their computer "thinks." I compared it to making a phone call and wanting to speak to a person, and that person expects me to speak to their machine. These people have technology, but I need the freedom to decide whether I want to use it.

 

[Filthy Lucre]

I have been using Google pretty much every day for many years, but it seems to be getting worse with each passing day, and now I think I'm going to have to use a different search engine. I have always put in my queries, Google showed me webpages, and I would usually find the answer to my question. Now it changes my question to many different variations, none of which are pertinent to what I'm trying to find out. Then it shows me a shitload of ads.

The AI is absolutely bat shit crazy. It gives me stupid opinions about my searches, and I have not found an option to disable AI.

Today I was thinking about the George Floyd incident and how the media only talks about what the officers did, but I could not remember anyone actually saying whether Floyd had fought with the police. I googled it with my cell phone. What do you know? Floyd did not resist at the moment extreme force was used. That's not what I asked. I'm surprised Google didn't tell me that Floyd did not resist once he was dead. Google had changed my question so that it could answer a different question for the purpose of concealing the fact that Floyd had fought with the police.

I went home and put the exact same query into Google, but on my computer. Now I got a very different answer.

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I have been using Google pretty much every day of my life for years, and now it's very difficult for me to get an answer to any of my questions. I hate woke people, and I know that they are responsible for programming the stupid goddamn AI. The other day I put in query about the races of man, and Google pretty much called me a racist. Okay, they happen to be correct that time, but not because I was studying about the races of man.

WTF??

All A.I. is jewsh. It will repeat lies it finds online as fact but if you spend an hour interrogating it eventually you can get it to admit it was lying. But if you ask the same question again after it admitted lying it will repeat the original lie it told in the first place.


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