Subj : Re: Turn off Google AI Su
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sun Nov 24 2024 08:22:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Ky!
> 
>   > If you use Google and want to turn off the AI summary put -AI at the end
>   > of the search query.  I find them sometimes handy and sometimes -- umm,
>   > not-so-handy!
>   > Full story -- which I pretty much summarized -- at
>   > https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-absurdly-simple-trick-turns-off-ai-in
>   > -your-google-search-results/   Ky will like the last peragraph! <g>
>   KM> "Pizza with glue" -- I'll have to let my local pizza joint know!
>   KM> Might keep the toppings from falling off. :P
>   
> Yes, especially when carrying the home under your arm!
> 
> ..Wonder if the 'glue' came from a bad interpretation of tomatoe paste?
> Paste <--> glue?

And there you have the genius of the large language model!


>   KM> I haven't used Google search in about 20 years. Not since
>   KM> IXQuick/Startpage and then DuckDuckGo came along. Google was
>   KM> already annoying back then, and on the rare occasion when I find
>   KM> myself at someone else's search link, I'm reminded why I
>   KM> switched. Partly because Google removed some of the functionality
>   KM> (could no longer search for very specific phrasing) but mostly
>   KM> because now you had to go 2 or 3 pages down to get past the
>   KM> garbage and sponsored links.
> 
> Right: used to be able to plus and minus words: essentially require a
> keyword to be in the search results and ignore any results with a
> specific word.  ...Seems using the double quotes helps with the require
> part.

Except you can't search for punctuation anymore, not even with quote 
marks. THAT was what first got my negative attention, because there was 
some particular thing I couldn't find without it, and was regularly 
needing... now none of them can do it.


>   > (My subject got truncated - reminded me of Ed's comment on SLMR's
>   > tagline length.)
>   KM> It's tellin' us we're too wordy!
>   
> Hmmmm.  ... Make that 'hm'!

M!!
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