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Google's classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage (searchenginewatch.com)
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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I hit the same thing on git yesterday, used the "Main" search thing not realizing it was their copilot shit. it took ages to think, then spew out a pile of shit with the links to what I actually wanted buried in a wall of text - how the fuck is that better?

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just checking, do you mean GitHub? Git definitely doesn't have copilot

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

For you or the shareholders?

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 6 days ago

Copilot sneaking in is really obnoxious, and common.

I just tried this prompt on Gemini and it worked really well:

Give me search results like a 1999 Google search on the content of the modern web for: "your search terms here"