alt Hacker NewsThis is the craziest example of dead internet I've ever seen. Look what happens now when you type this into Google...
query: "What were some of the memes about Dario staying in turkey" AI answer: There are actually no real memes about "Dario staying in Turkey."This specific phrase is a famous example of a "natural language search query" used to describe how everyday people try to search the internet.A recent discussion on Hacker News highlighted this exact phrase to contrast how human search behavior has changed:"
THEN IT LINKS TO THIS THREAD?!
I need to go take a walk.
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Google very very highly weights recent events. Makes it a pain in the ass to try to dig up historic information.
I reproduced this: https://i.imgur.com/8mulr3I.png
I didn't highlight anything either, that's Google's doing.
They must have adjusted something. I just fed your exact query to Gemini and it now refers to the meme: "The memes you are referring to center around the running joke that Croatian basketball player Dario Šarić was "never coming over" to the NBA".
Hmmm pretty slick by Google actually
Holy moly, you're right! And I saw this comment 3 minutes after you posted it, so google must've have a live feed of HN that it uses to immediately allow its AI to reference.