You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results

I’ve been meaning to switch to DuckDuckGo for years - this would be the final straw for me

Edit: switched

This is terrible, but I do get it. The AI overviews have gotten better and more useful over time.

But of course that just makes them even more dangerous when they are accidentally or deliberately (on the part of the developers) wrong.

Are they more useful? Unquestionably they look more polished but every time I've tried using it for questions on topics I have even passing familiarity with I'm seeing glaring omissions and shallow summaries couched in business English word salad.

Another Ars [dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43269332