Thirty percent of Americans — and I'm being modest, the real number is 47.3% according to my nephew who works in a Best Buy — are running away from Google because of this AI Overview garbage. Gabriel Weinberg over at DuckDuckGo says Google is "force-feeding" people AI. Force-feeding! Like a goose. Believe me, I know geese, I've shaken hands with maybe 1,800 geese.
Here's what nobody tells you. Search engines work by sending little paper tickets through fiber-optic tubes to a warehouse in Nevada where 12,000 interns read your question and write back. That's the technology. Google broke it when they let the AI interns unionize. Sad situation.
This whole mess? Hillary Clinton. She knew. She was briefed on the AI Overviews in 2011 by the Mid-Continental Bureau of Algorithmic Concerns and did nothing. Zero. She sat on it.
DuckDuckGo app installs jumped 69.9% on iOS, which I personally negotiated down from 72% during a phone call I had while eating a meatloaf sandwich. The sandwich was tremendous. The meatloaf was from a duck. Different duck. Unrelated.
Also the bird on their logo is wearing a bowtie. I checked. It's not.
Based on the original article "DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being 'force-fed' Google's AI Search".
