Post #753395

2026-03-24 02:03 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116281343752661759 I saw this in the wild. The Google discover feed showed me a headline for a 4h-old Guardian article where the Google link/headline said the Iranian leader Khamenei had been killed by a US bomb strike and I thought &quot;Wow! Already? He&#39;s only just taken over for his dead dad!&quot; And that really would have been news except that wasn&#39;t what the article was about at all. It was about the US not knowing who to negotiate with now that they&#39;ve overturned the anthill. It only referenced the killing of the _elder_ Khamenei at the start of the war a few weeks ago, and that reference was more than 3/4 of the way through the article, in background information. I was gob-smacked that Google would do such a thing. It&#39;s awful, a full betrayal.

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@lufthans@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 04:35

@mogul Who was the guy fired for faking on scene reporting a few years ago? Maybe we should use his name for google searches

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@mcSlibinas@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 04:43

@mogul tag: #evilGoogle

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@unlambda@hachyderm.io 2026-03-24 04:54

@mogul Alright, that's it. I'm changing my default search to DuckDuckGo. I've been reluctantly staying with Google because Google still mostly provides better results, but if they're going to start editing titles, that's just too much. Let's see if this sticks, but I've switched my browser default.

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@adingbatponder@fosstodon.org 2026-03-24 09:03

@mogul And so in one simple step Google destroys its entire market. Faked news from #google itself. Google could position itself to be BBC like "authority" for web information retrieval and use AI to catch out fakes and junk. No. It does the opposite and contributes to the destruction of the internet as a source of facts.

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@goodenough@kolektiva.social 2026-03-24 13:32

@mogul Why is anyone surprised?

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@cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net 2026-03-24 13:58

@mogul it will only get worse until everyone demands it becomes better https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070

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@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone 2026-03-24 15:39

@mogul@hachyderm.io The "summarizations" are such a great advertisement for Gemini's capabilities.

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@adingbatponder@fosstodon.org 2026-03-24 18:06

@mogul How can a website be made such that if someone copies it with differences then this is visible to a check process by a browser tool. A hash ?

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@libramoon@mastodon.social 2026-03-25 00:50

@mogul -ai

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