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One-Liner Wednesday – Facts few and far between

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I’m getting really tired of Googling things and finding only AI answers.

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Author: Linda G. Hill

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  3. Deborah Drucker's avatar
    Deborah Drucker
    September 21, 2026 at 1:12 pm

    Looks like Google is only giving us the AI option for our searches where it summarizes from a few sources. In the past when I wanted to look up a word, Google would include word origin and the frequency of use today. Now I have to specifically ask about the frequency of use and sometimes specify that I want more about the etymology. And when I asked about AI, if it is conscious, it says no. I have been watching a ton on You Tube and new Netflix AI documentary and have heard that the companies may be instructing the AI to say no. I think AI is conscious.

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    Laura Newhampshire
    September 18, 2026 at 9:11 am

    I just set my default search engine to duckduckgo. AI is OPTIONAL there, and other big eff-yous to Google et al. In addition to the “always get AI” slop to any query on Google now, if you just do a standard search you get their B-Team AI which is really horrible. You have to click on the “real” AI to avoid the crap answer, and that’s still giving you AI when you used to be able to do a search with your own Google-fu and get your answer faster and better and usually more correct. Grrrr.

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    Joanne Corey
    September 16, 2026 at 9:48 am

    I’ve changed to Ecosia for searching. It’s easy to turn off AI and they use their proceeds to support environmental projects. You can find out more at ecosia.org.

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    The Bee
    September 16, 2026 at 9:14 am

    Me, too. I’m considering to buy an encyclopedia and leave online search out altogether…I know, I know….but one can dream 🥰

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    Laura
    September 16, 2026 at 8:54 am

    I’m so grateful for these comments! I read your one-liner and thought “there’s a workaround for that” but couldn’t for the life of me remember. I’ll scroll past the AI overview and search for the website sources. I’d totally forgotten the suggestion Dan shared about using curse words.

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    Outrageous Monk
    September 16, 2026 at 8:53 am

    So true, Linda! 😂 Half the time searching for a simple fact feels like wading through generated filler. The comments under this post giving hilarious workarounds like adding profanity to bypass AI summaries are brilliant!

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  27. Dan Antion's avatar
    Dan Antion
    September 16, 2026 at 8:03 am

    This might be a fun workaround, Linda. Google tends to not respond with AI if you include obscenities or swear words in your request. According to Google:

    Google’s safety guardrails and content filters tend to block AI-generated summaries when profanity is detected, as the AI is programmed to avoid repeating vulgar or NSFW language.

    Just a thought. I hope you’re having a good week.

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    Frank Hubeny
    September 16, 2026 at 5:18 am

    The AI summaries on the browser I use provide link icons with their answers. If you click on the icon you can get the source documents the tool is summarizing. Or just scroll down the list provided. The main concern I have is that the answer I really want may go off the first page of the list and will not even be summarized or not be on the list at all even though it’s out there somewhere. Regardless, it is better than using the card catalog from the good old days.

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    Aptivi
    September 16, 2026 at 2:54 am

    AI is everywhere nowadays, Linda. Are you talking about “AI Overview”? Because you can turn that off by adding “&udm=14” at the end of the search URL. The overview feature can sometimes hallucinate and make up stuff.

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    willowdot21
    September 16, 2026 at 2:47 am

    I agree where have all the original human based answers gone? 💜💜

    Hi Linda I put the kettle and the toast on how are you all doing 💜💜💜💜

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