LOL I’ve avoided using anything from Google for a long time now just on general priciples.
I’ve switched to another email/calendar service, and I don’t use Google Search (kagi ftw) … but I can’t get rid of my Workspace account because I’m the admin for the rest of the family (who won’t leave gmail). Still, anything that further fragments Google’s information about me is a net plus.
Well, google’s American, and American’s like talking about “iddly” a lot. From context it would appear to be related to Italy. So perhaps try googling “does iddly exist” (tldr: it does).
Do we need to? yes and it is harboring the end of privacy, independence, freedom and our right to live. Will we? Nope
It has become so bad for results in Spanish too, that I am now self-hosting SearXNG even though I’m the only one using it in my family lol
Lets check the google results for italy Huh no results?
WTF is this sexy Garfield
Google has been mining your dreams
I switched to the French search engine Qwant. Much nicer.
But every result is a recipe for baguettes
At least those recipes don’t incorporate glue.
Gluten would like a word
Can’t find anything wrong with that.
But I already know how to make baguette
Problem solved then!? :-P
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, Mothman, Italians. All folklore.
Asked Google assistant today what the withdrawal symptoms of Adderall were… got told the suicide prevention hotline. So, that was fun.
That’s… Less than helpful.
(Also, I can try to field this one for you: headaches, fatigue, mental fogginess, sometimes temporary depressed mood or irritability, maybe increased appetite?)
To be fair, any drug of abuse potential will usually trigger SAMSHA links in the US by law. That might have been what you saw, and it’s been that way for at least a decade.
I’m in Finland so I can only give a sad forlorn look toward Italy and say “First time?”
Anyway.
Now:
Me: “What’s the weather like today?”
Computer: “It’ll be 25°C or so.”
Me: “How do you know that?”
Computer: “I looked up your location and queried the national weather service.”
Soon:
Me: “What’s the weather like today?”
Computer: “It’ll be 25°C or so.”
Me: “How do you know that?”
Computer: “Fuck if I know. I’ve just learned that is a thing that people apparently say in situations like this.”
You: “How do you know that?”
Computer: “u/trollface69420 says ‘Its always 25°C or so lol’”
Today I was trying to look up the syntax for how to search before a certain date on Google. The google AI overview turned out to be wrong
Well in fairness I’ve never been to Italy, so it’s possible it doesn’t exist.
I have been to it and i can confirm it doesnt exist
I’ve been in Italy a couple of times but hell if I know if I exist.
I have been so it does exist. However I’ve never been to Greenland, so Greenland may not exist.
Yeah, but I haven’t met you so…
Greenland is just a trick played on Canadians
Hey now, you’re not wrong, but you don’t have to call us out like that… Eh?
… Sorry.
“nope”, but it’s a 100-word excerpt from Reddit that pops in just as you’re about to click a link and shifts everything down.
Google was broken the moment it started to manipulate, in a biased manner, the search results.
Well i guess i don’t really exist then.
I’m sorry you had to find out this way.
Use https://wiby.me/ for everything but documentation
