{"id":618436,"date":"2026-10-02T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618436\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:32:08","slug":"when-you-should-use-googles-ai-for-search-and-when-you-should-skip-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618436\/","title":{"rendered":"When you should use Google\u2019s AI for search \u2014 and when you should skip it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"W44LCVD3AVFKBDDUNNKP7NZQBI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">After years of Google trying to force-feed AI to me in web search, I have to admit that I\u2019ve developed a taste for it \u2014 on some plates and in limited servings. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CFX2OJSRUVFU5PKYL7GSFGZGDA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Based on how thoroughly \u201cAI Overview\u201d results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2024\/05\/14\/google-ai-search-can-you-trust\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have taken over Google<\/a>, the company clearly sees AI as central to virtually every aspect of making sense of the web. You, however, are under no obligation to follow Google\u2019s lead \u2014 or to use it at all, since such search competitors as Microsoft\u2019s Bing and the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo still focus on traditional web links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of Google trying to force-feed AI to me in web search, I have to admit that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-618436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}