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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

A top weekly thread from r/technology, drawing 24,691 score and 826 comments.

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Top comments

The top 5 comments collected for this story carried 9,148 combined score. The quotes below are short excerpts from the highest-ranked visible comments.

I don't mind AI assisted search, but what I don't want is the AI giving me the answer. It's fine if it reads the pages and tells me which page contains the information I want and where on the page....

u/terrorTrain · 3,388 score

I just want to take these internet-connected chatbots, strip out all the so-called "personality", and just have them respond with a list of links to websites relevant to my query, sorted by relevancy....

u/invyros · 2,563 score

“You’re totally right I messed that up, I’ll do better next time!” - Gemini telling you 2+2 = 7

u/Hobbet404 · 1,456 score

This case is awesome. Essentially, the judge said that when Google was just providing links to what other people publish, they can say "we didn't say that." Once they decided to generate answers themselves, they are the ones saying these things, and are...

u/ganjaccount · 1,274 score

You know if they actually did that. That would be great. Can't tell how how many times I've searched for something like little Ceasars pizza and the first 3 results aren't little Ceasars but aren't pizza. I searched for that....

u/leviathan65 · 467 score

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