I get the same as the main post. Either way the point still stands. I had someone correct me with a misconception about something because he googled it and thats what it said in the answer box. It’s getting increasingly difficult to rely on search results especially when google synthesizes them into questions and answers with little context

It doesn’t matter? If you search for something and you get a blatantly wrong answer parroted from an AI text completion service, it’s still a fail.

I got the wrong answer from Google just now and I’ve never heard of that joke before. So clearly it isn’t just OP with polluted metrics.

I get the result you got, but the Emergent Mind response is the second organic result. That’s still way too high.

Interestingly enough, when I removed the word “letter” I got none. If I put it back I get Kenya.

This was done on the same device and same browser session.

Take out “the letter” part and search as just: “countries in africa that start with k”. For some reason it seems the search involving the words “the letter” got fixed but others did not. Confirmed I was able to get both results by doing that and as of this typing I still able to switch between the two results by just adding or removing those words

While true, I also got the same result as OP.

So what? They’re usually correct is the point.

I did it just now and got this:

Yeah, drawing conclusions from a single bad search result is stupid.

What’s your point here? Is googling supposed to be a lottery of good and shit results?

Kiribati Kirghizia Kenya

also Kroatia Kuba Kyprus Kanada Kosta Rica Karelia