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Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results (www.searchenginejournal.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google is coming under scrutiny after people discovered transcripts of conversations with its AI chatbot are being indexed in search results.

You can replicate what others are seeing by typing ‘site:bard.google.com/share‘ into the Google Search bar.

I tried this out for myself, and as one example found a writer brainstorming story ideas and using her full name. It seems that when you hit "export/share" on Bard, while you might think only people with access to the link that's created can view the conversation, in fact Google makes the conversation public and searchable. This is far more problematic than the vague privacy threat of your prompts being used to train the models and later being spit back to some random person in a reply. This lets you read full conversations. AI in general has a privacy problem, but this is a good reason not to use Bard in particular (if it sucking wasn't enough reason for you)

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago (7 children)

DuckDuckGo is, in my opinion after a lot of use, an inferior search engine to Google overall but thank god it doesn't force AI bullshit on me.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 54 points 11 months ago

I've found DDG and Google have become of fairly equal quality lately, although I think it's mainly due to Google getting worse rather than DDG getting significantly better

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

I honestly don't think it's inferior, but it does deliver different results and does so in a different manner.

Google is far superior for shopping however.

[–] eyepatchcheetah@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was my experience a few years ago. I would find myself first searching in DDG then using the g! or SP! search bangs to use Google or startpage. However, I have not needed that in at least a year or two. DDG now pretty much meets all my search needs.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

The fact that you can use bangs in DDG is so powerful that I don't understand why not more people use it as their main search engine. The few times when it's not good enough just add the !g after your search (it doesn't even need to be before) and get redirected to Google.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I'm keeping my eye on Kagi. About to start a trial. If it's good, I think it'd be refreshing to pay for it.

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I really tried my best with DDG, but I absolutely hated it. I’m back on Google search until I can find something better

[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Self host SearxNG or find a cheap provider for it and never look back

[–] Linssiili@sopuli.xyz 0 points 11 months ago

Give kagi a shot, it's paid service, but they have a 100 search trial

[–] SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If DDG doesn’t work, try !g to automatically send you to Google with the same query. Its handy for situations where DDG can’t find something.

There’s also !yt by the way.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use !wt (Wiktionary) and !gi (Google Images) surprisingly often.

[–] SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Knew there would be more! Thanks for telling me!

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Use search engines based in EU.

[–] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What ones

[–] serratur@lemmy.wtf 4 points 11 months ago

Qwant

[–] yoz@aussie.zone -1 points 11 months ago

Swisscow

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Your late night drunken/stoned conversations with LLMs are being put out there for everyone to see.