I don’t use Google directly, but as part of the open source meta search engine SearXNG, where we can specify what search engines it will use. And the top result is from Google and I can confirm that Plasma 6 for Arch is now officially been canceled. And it’s linked to Reddit. :smiley:

Search terms: kde plasma 6 release arch linux

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    screenshot showing original comment picked up by google

    It wasn’t even near the top of the post. (4 people fell for it in the replies)

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    I seen a post on mastodon yesterday that said if you’re using google to search for anything, the trick to getting useful results is to include before:2023 and ignore anything newer because it’s probably just AI generated/prioritized BS.

    I don’t think they were entirely wrong in thinking that, tbh.

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      before:2023 would just show content from 2023 and earlier I guess, right? That means new content is not available to you anymore. Plus, I don’t think this has anything to do with AI, because Google can process the data from any date with AI. AI is the tool to access the data, which can include older and new data.

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    Interesting…for reference, let me share a screenshot of the first two results I get from Kagi.

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    For me the top result on actual Google shows the instructions to install it, but that Reddit post is number two. I forgot how shitty the Google results page was these days.