You can no longer Google the word ‘disregard’
Key takeaways
- Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional ten blue links far down the page.
- For instance, this is what you ll now get if you type the word disregard into Google Search.
- Google has been catching some flack on social media for this, and it s easy to see why.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional ten blue links far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases that the company doesn t seem to have considered.
For instance, this is what you ll now get if you type the word disregard into Google Search.
Google has been catching some flack on social media for this, and it s easy to see why. As you ll notice, the Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll past a huge block of empty space. For most users, that single reply is the only thing you ll see. And crucially, the AI response serves no conceivable value to a user searching the word disregard. It s just a broken tool.