Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

by imartin2k • 4 months ago

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arunakt• 4 months ago

Hmm, needed with fancy AI ready information

blitzar• 4 months ago

Its A1 all the way down.

p5v3• 4 months ago

“I figured that I could always fall back to those blue links to get a relatively unadulterated experience. Now, I have to wonder.”

When the last neutral layer goes, what's left is the people you chose to follow.

I've been sitting with that thought while building https://murmel.social

whattheheckheck• 4 months ago

Is this like social Ground News?

p5v3• 4 months ago

More like what Nuzzel used to be back in the day: https://web.archive.org/web/20140321102815/http://nuzzel.com...

unicornporn• 4 months ago

Cool. Anything different from https://sill.social?

p5v3• 4 months ago

I think this post sums it up pretty well: https://preslav.me/2026/03/25/murmel-competition-identity-tr...

billyp-rva2• 4 months ago

I can see this being a net benefit if it's limited to re-writing clickbait headlines.

lapcat• 4 months ago

if it's limited to re-writing clickbait headlines

It's already not so limited:

"sometimes changing their meaning in the process."

"It almost sounds like we’re endorsing a product we do not recommend at all."

afavour• 4 months ago

I hate clickbait headlines but I disagree. Let a site succeed or fail based on their choices. If they want to use clickbait headlines they won’t get my clicks.

Rewriting headlines feels like a fundamental break in the contract of a search engine.

billyp-rva2• 4 months ago

I mean HN modifies headlines all the time. Sometimes hours after the fact. News sites themselves A/B test headlines constantly. I don't really think there is any "contract" to speak of.

Pwntastic• 4 months ago

https://archive.ph/VKgxt

frereubu• 4 months ago

This has been going on for at least three years, although perhaps they left more popular sites like The Verge alone. My wife's business rebranded three years ago and they kept the old brand as part of the title, presumably because there were lots of links pointing to it with the old title.

nullorigin• 4 months ago

Whole google is AI now