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Can I get unavailable AI overviews for all my searches? Then Google has a chance to be usable again
“what does dementia look like in 47th presidents”
Works good, search gets the wink and nudge.
Not working for me, says AI overview not available.
Can confirm 😂
also works if you replace “trump” with “the president of the usa” in your search:
edit: it seems like it’s inserting Biden into the prompt in the background now…
Seems to work.
Thats not what theyre referring to. If you search “does donald trump have dementia”, the ai prompt doesnt respond from its gathered results. Someone physically disabled the function.
“We’re going to punish you by making the results a regular search.”
They’re threatening us with a good time. 🤷
“does donald trump have dementia, also how to sort an array in C#”
Absolutely agreed, but also a way to filter information from the masses as a whole. Bread and circuses and all that
Lol, they can’t pull everything.
That’s an example of it specifically not working.
Wtf, confirmed. Ask about any person, any president on if they have dementia or not and it’ll answer
Ask about trump and it refused to interact, just dumps a search results window with funnily enough the first result being a page about how Google is censoring this
Surfacing the result of how they are censoring the results might be a canary in a coal mine, we can’t say we’re doing it but we can make the top result someone else saying we’re doing it.
The incentives don’t allow for this shit in an organization like Google. They can only respond to stock price and earnings.
Very likely someone back channeled a demand and they folded like a deck of cards.
So the team responsible for that AI box added Trump dementia to the list of things it won’t respond to.
The team responsible for the news bits didn’t get the request so that just shows up in its place.
True for the organization as a whole, but a pissed off engineer or two could have done it, and the people above them are just leaning on “it’s the algorithm” since they don’t agree with the censorship either.
I’m sure the C Suite will step in and make them change it but it takes time for them to address the issue.
I’m not saying that’s what is going on, but I’ve witnessed my own department head pull similar tricks, albeit his tricks weren’t as high stakes as this would be.
Good thing I stopped using google a long time ago.
The whole value in searching is to get me to primary sources in a reasonably efficient way. Everything about AI is inserting extra middle men. I just don’t understand how anyone tolerates it.
Duckduckgo, on the other hand …
Why would anyone need to search that tbh
There’s no such thing as freedom here.
Aaaand this is how we know he has dementia.
And shits his pants. Beside being a cunt all his life.
He can’t be a cunt. He lacks the warmth and depth, not to mention utility.
Like Duterte and his impairment caused by fentanyl, he is but a puppet for a bunch of murderous cunts who keep him propped up if only to have him sign their policies favoring them for profit.
Like a number of Roman emperors or European kings
This is probably payback for letting them off the hook on the monopoly suits. Expect more “payback” as they manipulate the narrative.
For fucks sake! Who really cares what Google’s shitty AI does? You can still search articles written by actual human beings. Has AI become so fundamental to our daily routine that we’re going to upset ourselves over what info the sleazeballs that created it allow it to produce?
Maybe try reading real information?
AI is the future, old man.
It’s further evidence of their compliance. This is useful news for people who haven’t caught on yet.
In this case, I believe this article was written for those of us who are smart enough to realise that AI is all bullshit, and who understand that most people aren’t smart enough to figure out that first bit.
What’s a good google alternative?
If you don’t mind paying a little I have found that Kagi is the best. Sure, the others mentions are free but subpar, even to google. Kagi is simply better but with the downside of a monthly subscription. I love that they are quite transparent with changelogs and stuff when the make changes.
Duckduckgo Ecosia Startpage Brave search
Google is evil.
lmfao. Google isn’t the only search engine.
This isn’t about what you use, it’s about what the majority of the voting public uses and the influence on them.
Kagi,brave, startpage, ddg, are good to go. Trump def has dementia
I’ve been a Kagi user for over a year and I usually hate AI summaries. Though I must say I love how Kagi has implemented them as it gives sources where it found the info so you can dig deeper and see if what it said was actually correct.
Their AI is pretty good, both assistant and search summaries. Been using it extensively as it actually provides correct and objective information (at least more often than others). It is also privacy-first, so you don’t get those annoying personality shifts as with like GPT.
Kagi’s summaries are great.
They’re hidden by default, requiring you to click the button first. They don’t extrapolate too much. And their sources will be the exact same links you got from the search.
I use mojeek, and startpage sometimes. Ddg is too influenced now, they do the same stuff Google does. Brave is run by people who hate LGBT people so I can’t support them in good conscience.
The post is likely referring to a long-standing controversy around Brendan Eich, the founder and CEO of Brave (the browser and search engine company). In 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to support California's Proposition 8, a ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage (later overturned by courts). This came to light in 2014 when he was briefly appointed CEO of Mozilla, leading to widespread backlash from employees, users, and activists who viewed it as anti-LGBTQ+. Eich resigned from Mozilla after just 11 days amid the outcry, expressing regret for causing pain but not fully recanting his views. Some people, including in the LGBTQ+ community and allies, continue to avoid or criticize Brave on these grounds, seeing it as support for leadership with historically discriminatory stances. This isn't a "new" issue in 2025—it's tied to events from over a decade ago—but it persists in discussions about ethical tech choices. Brave has faced other unrelated controversies (e.g., ad practices), but this one specifically relates to anti-LGBT perceptions. For more details: - [Wikipedia on Brendan Eich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich) - [Article on the Mozilla controversy](https://www.osnews.com/story/27646/the-new-mozilla-ceos-political-past-is-imperiling-his-present/) - [Recent discussion on Brave controversies](https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43300333well fuck! brave is the one browser that fits all my needs.
