Google's AI Search Overhaul Renders the Word 'Disregard' Unsearchable
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Source: techcrunch.com ↗
I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent. There really is a first time for everything!
Google's sweeping AI Search redesign — which buries the classic "10 blue links" under AI summaries — has produced a delightful edge case: searching the word "disregard" now returns a giant blank space where an AI response should be, with a lone Merriam-Webster link hiding below. The AI offers nothing useful; it simply fails silently and takes up the whole screen.
The collateral damage is enough to make a tech journalist do the unthinkable: praise a Bing result. As TechCrunch's Russell Brandom put it after nearly 15 years on the beat, this marks the first time he can recall a Bing search being more valuable than the Google equivalent. Quite the milestone.