Google's AI Overview told me I hadn't written an article for the New York Times about the Southport attack, claiming: "There is no information in the search results about her writing about Southport"

But the first search result was the article I'd written for the NYT about the Southport attack

April 09, 2026 - 11:19 UTC

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DuckDuckGo (the search engine I use) does better. I try to avoid Google in general, but it's not easy (I do use Gmail, for one).
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That's heartening, thank you for sharing
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True. Their AI is pretty pathetic.
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Yep, my AI user tip is to routinely ask reasonably demanding questions for which you know the answer, to compare strengths and weaknesses. e.g. In my experience, Google Gemini will always give an answer, no matter how often you tell it it's wrong. Whereas, DeepSeek will just say it doesn't know. 🤷
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Obviously I knew the AI Overview result to be false and skip them as a general rule, but extremely bad to know that people purposefully seeking out news articles in an age where every online tool seems to be fighting journalism could be told the very thing they're looking for doesn't exist
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Non-generative AI LLMs are used in some browsers. These summarisers are summaries of what you yourself might collect and collect from searches. They provide some references from which they have been created.
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qwant search engine finds your article too
(showing recent articles first, unless I forced Southport)
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