Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including “disregard”, “ignore”, and “skip”
With certain terms, AI Overviews are drawing a blank. … Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now.
The Verge Jay Peters
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Discussion
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@ariadotwav
Aria
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oh my fucking god bruh [image]
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@user823493247
@user823493247
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genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks
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@merriamwebster
@merriamwebster
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disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice [image]
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@clemmieragatha
Clementine
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hi everyone here is how you get rid of ai overviews on google I swear to god it works [image]
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@lilyraynyc
Lily Ray
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Yeah it works for me too. What a blunder and right after Google IO 2026. Almost as bad as glue on pizza. Maybe Google should have, idk, kept the dictionary tool for dictionary queries. [image]
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@tmu
Teemu Hallamaa
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Jep, lol [embedded post]
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r/technology
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Google's AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you're looking for
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@heysaik
Sai Kambampati
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this is hilarious [image]