I searched for a specific string I copied out of a log file.
Google returned only one result and under it where it usually says what parts of your query it ignored to allow this result through it just had my entire query in full.
So basically I said "find me this" and Google went "I can't find that, here's something completely random from the internet that has nothing to do with anything"
I naively like to think they chucked a bunch of tests cases at some level when they introduced Google+ (when they threw out the old plus operator to reuse + for Google+ searches) and never recovered after that.
No, if it’s working it’s more like “I can't find that, here's some completely random Advertisement from the internet that has nothing to do with anything"
I was literally in the process of searching for comparisons about MSFT vs Google search dominance as it relates to GPT when this happened. I thought I was using specific queries that were giving me intentionally worse results. Wow! I have never seen a Google outage prior to this. It better be one hell of an update or the writing on the wall is becoming clear.
It's working for me, but there are no web site results (just images, videos and nonsensical Bard responses) so I think it's working as designed. I think the problem is you're expecting Google to return useful results, which is clearly not Alphabet's objective.
[One example of the content on Google search... I searched for "dingo" and one of the responses was "When did dingoes go extinct?" with a paragraph about how dingoes went extinct in Australia 2000 years ago. What color is the sky in your world, Bard?]
Just searched for Docker Swarm, and got [0] one "People also ask" card, one section for images, some related searched, and a button that says "More Results" that doesn't work. Moreover, the formatting of the CSS in the footer also looks weird. Seems like there's definitely been some issue with the deployment.
Edit: using brave and chrome on an Intel Mac, same results for both.
Yesterday I tried "I'm feeling lucky" and each time the server returned /doodles, the Doodles page listing all the Google Doodles. I no longer felt lucky.
Is it far fetched to say that OpenAI is behind this panic at Google?
Well Google has been really good for better part of its time but they have been slacking for few years. I think it's good that OpenAI rocked their boat.
Funny how flimsy dominance is. In a few years, search quality has gone from top to average, then all of a sudden, it’s going into the “irrelevant” field.
Funny how good Microsoft is. Bitbucket is shit, GitLab is barely acceptable, we’ll subscribe to GitHub because it is the best in class. Google’s support is so bad that we’ll subscribe to O365. Now Bing and OpenAI.
Suddenly Microsoft is the main actor on the internet again.
I was just about to ask the same question. I'm in the Northeastern United States. No web pages are returned when I search. Videos, Images, and news kind of work, but nothing else.
This is the first time in recent memory I can remember Google being broken like this.
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Google returned only one result and under it where it usually says what parts of your query it ignored to allow this result through it just had my entire query in full.
So basically I said "find me this" and Google went "I can't find that, here's something completely random from the internet that has nothing to do with anything"
I naively like to think they chucked a bunch of tests cases at some level when they introduced Google+ (when they threw out the old plus operator to reuse + for Google+ searches) and never recovered after that.
I'm not in Nevada.
(This is a joke offered in the spirit of humor and is in no way a criticism.)
Hacker News moment lol
[One example of the content on Google search... I searched for "dingo" and one of the responses was "When did dingoes go extinct?" with a paragraph about how dingoes went extinct in Australia 2000 years ago. What color is the sky in your world, Bard?]
Edit: using brave and chrome on an Intel Mac, same results for both.
[0] https://imgur.com/a/CA5IB77
https://imgur.com/a/AUgMwe2
Kind of like when your're nodding off and someone asks if you're asleep. "No," you say, and have no memory of it the next day.
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Well Google has been really good for better part of its time but they have been slacking for few years. I think it's good that OpenAI rocked their boat.
Funny how good Microsoft is. Bitbucket is shit, GitLab is barely acceptable, we’ll subscribe to GitHub because it is the best in class. Google’s support is so bad that we’ll subscribe to O365. Now Bing and OpenAI.
Suddenly Microsoft is the main actor on the internet again.
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Thank you for the correction. I learned something about that button I never knew.
What did the button do in the years before /doodles existed. The button has existed since the early days, but not /doodles.
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https://fossbytes.com/what-does-the-im-feeling-lucky-button-...
https://www.pcworld.com/article/460864/google_changes_im_fee...
This is the first time in recent memory I can remember Google being broken like this.