Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social
Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:
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DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
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Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.
This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:
“There are no countries in Africa that start with K.” “What about Kenya?” “Kenya suck deez nuts?”
Google Search is over.
@JoBo I just googled it and Kenya came up as the first hit in Search and in Bard.
Same. On my account and when logged out the first result is about Kenya. This is happening because of personalized search.
That’s not much of an excuse, if it’s meant to be one. Google “personalised” the results by making them worse?