Google Search Starts Rolling Out ChatGPT-style Generative AI Results

Google's "Search Generative Experience" is a plan to put ChatGPT-style generative AI results right in your Google search results page, and the company announced the feature is beginning to roll out today. At least, the feature is rolling out to the mobile apps for people who have been on the waitlist and were chosen as early access users. From a report: Unlike the normally stark-white Google page with 10 blue links, Google's generative AI results appear in colorful boxes above the normal search results. Google will scrape a bunch of information from all over the Internet and present it in an easy list, with purchase links to Best Buy and manufacturers' websites. If this ever rolls out widely, it would be the biggest change to Google Search results ever, and this design threatens to upend the entire Internet. One example screenshot of a "Bluetooth speaker" search on desktop shows a big row of "Sponsored" shopping ads, then the generative AI results start to show up in a big blue box about halfway down the first page. The blue box summarizes a bunch of information harvested from somewhere and lists several completely unsourced statements and opinions about each speaker. In Google's example, users are never told where this information comes from, so they can't make any judgment as to its trustworthiness.

Have to wait for better images...

[Shaitan]

Why would they use such low resolutions images in the article? I had LASIK a few months ago and can still barely make out the text on that thing and blowing it up all I get a pixelated mess.

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[ls671]

You probably already know this but here it is anyway: Are you sure that you don't use ad/javascript blockers? Many sites show you low res images until they judge you allow everything they want you to allow when you access the site...

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[Shaitan]

Interesting but no... I've never heard of the make it seem like we make crappy content without saying anything approach. In any case their ads appear to all be loading.

The view through their image viewer is horrible and I'd tried snipping that to blow it up but there is a button to pop out of it or then you can zoom or you can save the image and zoom and it is better. But as I sit here I think I've just realized this screencap is from mobile. That is why the resolution is so low. It probably looks fine on a

Always trying to sell you shit

[Powercntrl]

Google will scrape a bunch of information from all over the Internet and present it in an easy list, with purchase links to Best Buy and manufacturers' websites.

I don't know about you, but I woke up today thinking what the internet really needs is more sponsored search results.

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[VeryFluffyBunny]

I, for one, welcome our new AI search overlords. They're doubleplusgood!

Google's Featured Snippets

[bimbo69]

I trusted the info in one of Google's Featured Snippets once about my frequest flyer membership. Google's information was years out of out, wrong and cost me about $400. This will be worse.

Digital Liar

[zenlessyank]

I guess it is time for a new search engine.

Do we have to port the MS question to Google?

[Opportunist]

Can I turn that off and if so, how?

The article is wrong

[LindleyF]

From what I've heard elsewhere, providing sourcing links is part of this. Maybe they saw an earlier version.

Good thing I do not use Google anymore

[gweihir]

Would have been one piece of crap more on the screen that I need to ignore.

Yet more reasons that google is going downhill

[Turkinolith]

It's already hard enough to get some "real" search results for a query at times thanks to all of the storefronts that have SEO-ed the hell out of their pages. Now, between actual advertisements and the "crap" results I have even more advertising to have to dig through? Nice.

So ....

[Anonymous Coward]

Pretty much a normal Google search then, just extra crunchy.

No wonder why they want to cripple ad blockers.

Diluting their own product

[Mozai]

So Google Search is in the business of providing answers to questions, yes? And sure, they depend on others to supply those answers, and the others are often liars, SEO forgeries, or just plain mistaken. Then came the "sponsored links" which was bribery. And now Google will add straight-up guesswork and hallucinations from uncomprehending and uncomprehensible clockwork to dilute their product without even the benefit of bribery income.

This isn't just enshitification, this is suicide.