Hacker News with Generative AI: Google Search

Teens Almost Got Away with Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches (wired.com)
Amadou Sow woke to the shrieking of smoke detectors. It was a little after 2:30 am on August 5, 2020, and his house in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, was ablaze.

Crime, Law Enforcement, Technology, Google Search

7 points by 01-_- 3 days ago | 0 comments

Zero-click searches: Google's AI tools are the culmination of its hubris (arstechnica.com)
Google's first year with AI search was a wild ride. It will get wilder.

Google Search, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Search Engines, Hubris

5 points by whiteboardr 3 days ago | 0 comments

Google Search Engineer Rants on DOJ's Anti-Trust Case (seroundtable.com)
Ryan Moulton, a Google Search engineer who works on Google's search rankings algorithms for over 18 years now, went to X to call out some of what the courts are saying as not true.

Google Search, Antitrust, Lawsuits, Social Media, Technology

4 points by rexbee 11 days ago | 1 comments

Google Search in Decline (tuta.com)
For over a decade, Google has dominated the online search market. With a global market share over 90%, Google had the power how billions of people search the web and access information. But now, for the first time since 2015, more than 1 out of 10 people use alternative search engines. Is this a first sign of the Google dominance coming to an end?

Google Search, Market Share, Competition, Search Engines

15 points by nichos 25 days ago | 1 comments

When my iPhone was in Tucson, Google thought it was in Japan (medium.com)
Last week, I visited Tucson, Arizona for five days. The entire time I was there, every time I was using cellular for Internet on my AT&T-based iPhone, all Safari autocomplete suggestions (which come from Google) were in Japanese:

Google Search, Location Services, iPhone, Mobile Devices, Japan

5 points by mmorearty 32 days ago | 3 comments

Publishers say traffic to their sites has plummeted due to Google AI Overviews (bloomberg.com)
In the absence of clear answers from Google, creators have struggled to discern how much of their pain is due to AI Overviews or due to other changes in search.

Google Search, AI, Publishing, Traffic, News

19 points by coloneltcb 47 days ago | 7 comments

Ask HN: How to stop Google from autocorrecting our company name? (ycombinator.com)
Our small cloud consulting company Autimo has been facing a frustrating issue with Google searches. Whenever potential clients try to search for our company name “Autimo,” Google automatically corrects it to “autismo,” which is obviously not ideal for our brand.

Google Search, Brand Management, SEO, Marketing

14 points by woleium 69 days ago | 12 comments

Google Quality Raters Guidelines Warns of Significant Scrolling on Recipe Blogs (seroundtable.com)
Another update in the revised Google Quality Raters Guidelines that was updated on January 23rd was that they added a section for recipe sites and said that requiring "significant scrolling" or making it hard to find the jump to recipe button is not a good thing.

SEO, Recipe Blogs, Google Search, Content Quality, User Experience

6 points by vincent_s 107 days ago | 0 comments

Google Says "Links Matter Less"–We Looked at 1M SERPs to See If It's True (ahrefs.com)

SEO, Google Search, Data Analysis

12 points by rapawel 109 days ago | 1 comments

Microsoft Bing Now Hides Google Search Results (seroundtable.com)
Recently, we saw Microsoft tricking searchers into thinking they were searching in Google and not on Bing.

Search Engines, Microsoft Bing, Google Search

7 points by redbell 123 days ago | 1 comments

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search (techcrunch.com)
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search.

Google Search, JavaScript, Web Development, Technology

175 points by ungut 126 days ago | 144 comments

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search (techcrunch.com)
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search.

Google Search, Web Development, JavaScript

15 points by jmsflknr 127 days ago | 4 comments

More Than Half of All Google Search Takedowns Now Come from Link-Busters (torrentfreak.com)
Link-Busters is the unofficial DMCA takedown champion of 2024. The anti-piracy outfit works for many of the world's largest publishing companies and is currently flagging the majority of all 'pirate' URLs to Google search; more than two billion in total. Despite this stellar effort, book pirates are chalking up new records too.

Copyright, Piracy, Google Search, DMCA, Publishing

14 points by isaacfrond 142 days ago | 0 comments

Google search hallucinates Encanto 2 (bsky.app)

Google Search, Generative AI, Hallucinations, Entertainment, Encanto

25 points by zdw 147 days ago | 8 comments

Google Search Changes Are Killing Websites in an Age of AI Spam (cnet.com)
Google's major search algorithm updates this past year have left many smaller websites with no other choice than to lay off staff. The internet is worse for it.

Google Search, Online Content, Digital Media

4 points by jsheard 152 days ago | 0 comments

Google search destroyed our voice as a travel blog (and others) (viatravelers.com)

Google Search, Travel, Blogs

8 points by bwb 161 days ago | 2 comments

Google Year in Search 2024: The Breakout searches of the year (google)
From record-breaking Olympians and the global resurgence of country music, to the rise of an irresistibly charming baby hippo, 2024 was a year full of surprises no one saw coming.

Google Search, Trending Topics, Pop Culture

20 points by Jasondells 162 days ago | 3 comments

A subtle layout bug in Google Search: When CJK text-wrapping meets float (likang.dev)
Recently, I investigated an interesting layout bug in Google Search’s pagination component. I first noticed it a few months ago but thought it was caused by some Chrome extensions I had installed. Later, I set up a fresh browser profile and reproduced the issue, realizing it was a broader problem.

Web Development, Google Search, User Interface, Layout Bugs

81 points by kang_li 186 days ago | 25 comments

I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results (tomsguide.com)

ChatGPT, Google Search, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Comparison

31 points by isaacfrond 204 days ago | 30 comments

Google is getting even worse for independent sites (theverge.com)
An article in HouseFresh, a site dedicated to air quality, hit a nerve in February: it outlined how independent publishers have been gradually bumped out of Google search results, with big media companies taking their place.

Google Search, Independent Media, Journalism, Online Advertising

84 points by colinprince 206 days ago | 15 comments

Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results shows perils of AI scrapers (arstechnica.com)
A trend on Reddit that sees Londoners giving false restaurant recommendations in order to keep their favorites clear of tourists and social media influencers highlights the inherent flaws of Google Search’s reliance on Reddit and Google's AI Overview.

Google Search, AI, Social Media, Reddit, Reviews

19 points by akyuu 209 days ago | 5 comments

Why Google Search Is Falling Apart [video] (youtube.com)

Google Search, Search Engines, Technology, Video

22 points by eldaisfish 224 days ago | 3 comments

Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Image Generation, Google Search

415 points by jsheard 229 days ago | 418 comments

Google partners with Internet Archive to link to archives in search (9to5google.com)
Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results.

Google Search, Internet Archive, Search Engines, History, Digital Preservation

64 points by bhouston 255 days ago | 22 comments

Ask HN: Did Google search change (for the worse) today? (ycombinator.com)

Google Search, User Experience, Technology, Web Search

10 points by elchief 276 days ago | 14 comments

The biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox (fortune.com)

Google Search, Mozilla Firefox, Antitrust, Competition, Technology

33 points by jnord 291 days ago | 15 comments

Does Sundar Pichai/Search team know how bad Google search is? (ycombinator.com)

Google Search, Search Engines, Technology, User Experience

59 points by HEGalloway 293 days ago | 56 comments

Google search won't autocomplete searches related to Trump assasination attempt (ycombinator.com)

Google Search, Politics, Censorship

39 points by avsteele 300 days ago | 19 comments

Steam (video game store) considered natural cough remedy by Google search (imgur.com)