When did Google get so weird?
8 hours ago
- Author searched for a niche basketball meme phrase 'hes never coming over dario'.
- Google's AI Overview responded with empathetic advice instead of relevant links.
- Author criticizes Google for acting like a friend rather than a search engine.
- The actual desired links (old tweets and Reddit posts) were still present below the AI overview.
- Author questions whether we now need parasocial dialogues with computers and notes Google has lost its original purpose.