<![CDATA[Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners.]]>Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners.

And that sucks! I'm sorry. But I have to ask: If Google frustrates you… maybe switch away? There *are* no-AI alternatives!:

- https://noai.duckduckgo.com

- Kagi is an AI-infected search engine, but they offer a "custom CSS" feature (see next post) you can use to remove the AI.

And *this* is the time to get out. Before Google takes the search you're used to away completely: https://aftermath.site/google-search-ai-changes/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/2c78a160-0286-4ca9-8aa5-e3a5aecc7557/sometimes-i-see-people-frustration-post-screenshots-of-google-searches-marred-by-gemini-ai-banners.RSS for NodeWed, 27 May 2026 11:35:06 GMTWed, 20 May 2026 20:32:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 19:02:46 GMT]]>@mcc wait why are you disabling keyboard shortcuts? (I don't have that option anyway so just curious)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/aburka/statuses/116614113943054782https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/aburka/statuses/116614113943054782Thu, 21 May 2026 19:02:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 18:58:15 GMT]]>@mcc @marginalia

This is cool. I didn't know about this.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://micro.glasshoundcomputing.com/users/jeremiah/statuses/01KS5YE4E7BE2KG4JQBGD16932https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://micro.glasshoundcomputing.com/users/jeremiah/statuses/01KS5YE4E7BE2KG4JQBGD16932Thu, 21 May 2026 18:58:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 18:32:36 GMT]]>@mcc@mastodon.social @marginalia@mastodon.social extremely interested in search that doesn't suck and isn't kagi, because kagi needs competition. will probably switch to waterfox

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sk.girlthi.ng/notes/amje74e9ixm800v9https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sk.girlthi.ng/notes/amje74e9ixm800v9Thu, 21 May 2026 18:32:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 18:20:16 GMT]]>@ariarhythmic it seems to be all rumors, but among the rumors the worrying one is they supposedly (nobody gave me a cite) asked Waterfox to remove them as an offered search option… which… uh… https://critter.cafe/@luxliquida/116608972035022687

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116613946855853398https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116613946855853398Thu, 21 May 2026 18:20:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 18:17:44 GMT]]>@mcc huh? That's unfortunate if so...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116613936863074147https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116613936863074147Thu, 21 May 2026 18:17:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 18:15:10 GMT]]>Okay one more "search without the AI" option I've just learned about, and unlike Kagi/DDG this one's even from a no-AI company:

https://search.waterfox.com/

Similar to how Waterfox repackages Firefox without the genAI, this takes Google and repackages it without the genAI. It costs money, but the money supports Waterfox, so that's… good?

Also since this is Mastodon I should probably mention SearXNG and https://marginalia-search.com/ ( here as @marginalia ), both open source. Marginalia looks promising.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116613926785221869https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116613926785221869Thu, 21 May 2026 18:15:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 18:13:43 GMT]]>@ariarhythmic If we're getting into that level of detail though, a lot of people have warned me over the last 24 hours that Startpage is showing multiple signs of going out of business very soon… 😞

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116613921101858638https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116613921101858638Thu, 21 May 2026 18:13:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 18:12:52 GMT]]>@mcc noai.duckduckgo.com is not the default option. the default is a search with AI overviews, and there's also a "yesai" subdomain.

Startpage as a project isn't nearly as deep in AI psychosis as duckduckgo, that's my point.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116613917750848997https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116613917750848997Thu, 21 May 2026 18:12:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 15:52:47 GMT]]>@ariarhythmic neither does noai.duckduckgo. and i did boost the startpage recommendations (i wish that if you had a thread and you boosted replies to a thread, that services like mastodon or bluesky would display those prominently when reading the thraed)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116613366937616429https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116613366937616429Thu, 21 May 2026 15:52:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 15:18:59 GMT]]>@mcc no idea.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/f4grx/statuses/116613233985113967https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/f4grx/statuses/116613233985113967Thu, 21 May 2026 15:18:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 15:14:52 GMT]]>@mcc That's fair, i suppose, though unlike duckduckgo Startpage does not have AI overviews by default AFAIK

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116613217783540530https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116613217783540530Thu, 21 May 2026 15:14:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 14:12:14 GMT]]>@ariarhythmic …okay I've only just found out this morning Waterfox also has a paid search engine. I do not know where their data comes from and I haven't evaluated its quality.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116612971515349053https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116612971515349053Thu, 21 May 2026 14:12:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 14:10:46 GMT]]>@ilsk Google also has you log in when you use it…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116612965729061160https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116612965729061160Thu, 21 May 2026 14:10:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 14:09:34 GMT]]>@f4grx this is the first im hearing of it. What is their data source?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116612961049261170https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116612961049261170Thu, 21 May 2026 14:09:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 14:08:40 GMT]]>@ariarhythmic My immediate goal is to put myself and others in a situation where they aren't exposed to genAI. Obviously not patronizing companies with genAI in their lineup at all would be better, but the only zero genAI developers I know of with search engines are marginalia and searxng. Those are cool projects, but I don't think they're in complete enough states that if someone recommends them as Google alternatives people will stop using Google. Even mojeek and startpage have genAI products.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116612957490406336https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116612957490406336Thu, 21 May 2026 14:08:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 11:46:26 GMT]]>@jdp23 @mcc @ireneista As a translator, I've found the same thing. The effort required to turn AI output into your own voice is greater than the effort of just using your own voice in the first place. You either pass off AI as your own work, which is disingenuous and risky, or you actually do the work.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/Steve/statuses/116612398190709985https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/Steve/statuses/116612398190709985Thu, 21 May 2026 11:46:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 09:04:32 GMT]]>@ryanc @whitequark The non-English-speaking communities stayed on X to a much larger extent for various reasons.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crzwdjk/statuses/116611761599419918https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crzwdjk/statuses/116611761599419918Thu, 21 May 2026 09:04:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 07:57:02 GMT]]>@mcc The both of those are AI companies

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116611496196689149https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116611496196689149Thu, 21 May 2026 07:57:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 07:51:05 GMT]]>@mcc My turn, what do you think of Waterfox private search?

https://search.waterfox.com/

this one is not free.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/f4grx/statuses/116611472786181344https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/f4grx/statuses/116611472786181344Thu, 21 May 2026 07:51:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 07:29:48 GMT]]>@whitequark @mcc and, I, for one, judge the shit out of them

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/ryanc/statuses/116611389117747993https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/ryanc/statuses/116611389117747993Thu, 21 May 2026 07:29:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 07:24:00 GMT]]>@mcc i know lots of people here who also use twitter...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116611366310194583https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116611366310194583Thu, 21 May 2026 07:24:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 03:48:10 GMT]]>@mcc There are also other search engines that are popping up that are not AI-focused:

swisscows.com
mojeek.com
startpage.com

Worth checking those out if you're looking for google alternatives.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/jonobie/statuses/116610517626707260https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/jonobie/statuses/116610517626707260Thu, 21 May 2026 03:48:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 03:46:40 GMT]]>@RVLara23 Yes

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116610511701135443https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116610511701135443Thu, 21 May 2026 03:46:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners. on Thu, 21 May 2026 03:19:05 GMT]]>@mcc

Kagi is a paid service though, isn't it?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/RVLara23/statuses/116610403267493745https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/RVLara23/statuses/116610403267493745Thu, 21 May 2026 03:19:05 GMT