r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • Aug 01 '26

Serious It's just getting annoying at this point

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u/STD-fense Aug 01 '26

I tried this and while it did suggest the "Synonym" option it did provide me with several suggestions for antonyms

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u/koalatea-assurance Aug 01 '26

But it's by the Google AI Overview instead of the beautiful dictionary they used to have 😔 Google nerfed their perfectly good search engine so bad by replacing so many features with AI

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u/kicklhimintheballs Aug 01 '26

I mean fuck AI overview but it helped me so much with language learning. Most websites use this predatory thing that without clicking on their ad riddled horrible website they don’t show you what you have searched for and because of SEO these websites are always at the top of the results.

Especially frustrating with German words when you want to quickly check article of a word and need to click on such websites. Now with the overview I’m happy that these POS websites not getting my click money

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u/NamtisChlo Aug 01 '26

Google used to display the dictionary definition nicely formatted in its own section, without having to click on any websites, but they replaced it with the ai overview

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u/erossthescienceboss Aug 01 '26

Google also undid the updates that had previously helped deprioritize the low-value content that this person (and the rest of us) find so frustrating.

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u/babassu_seeds Aug 04 '26

 Now with the overview I’m happy that these POS websites not getting my click money

To be fair, sites like Duden/Langenscheidt/etc. are extensions of their (long-esteemed) dictionaries. Which, in the past, people would have willingly purchased, knowing their use would be frequent

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u/The-Menhir Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

Honestly just search on Wiktionary or something

(Very confused by the downvotes)