Google Search App Can Now 'Simplify' Complex Search Results

[MacRumors]

Google today said that it's adding a new "Simplify" feature to the Google app for iOS, with the addition aimed at making search results easier to understand.

Google says that Simplify is meant to help users understand "jargon" or unfamiliar technical concepts, including medical words that the average person would not know, and technical terms. It uses AI to make "dense text on the web" simpler to comprehend without the user having to leave a website to do more research.

To use Simplify in the Google app for iOS, users can select any complex text on a webpage and then tap on the "Simplify" icon to see a new, simpler version.

Simplify uses a prompt refinement approach that was developed by Google Research, taking advantage of Gemini to make complicated text more digestible without losing key details. In a research paper, Google said that users selected to test the feature were better able to understand complicated medical, financial, legal, and technical websites when queried after using the Simplify feature.

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[xander49x]

Will never ever use Google, they can't be trusted.

 

[orbital~debris]

The great ‘dumbing down’ continues.

Between this and LLMs writing things for people, creating their images & crafting their entertainment, humanity will eventually not need to lift a finger while our ‘enslavement’ to technology becomes complete.

 

[Octavius8]

sure, make us more… sorry what is the word I am looking for?. I need AI to complete my ideas…

 

[ersan191]

Nuance is dead.

 

[Aeronauts]

I just want Google Search to find the info I’m looking for without showing pages of irrelevant links. Their search algorithms have gone seriously wrong somewhere along the line.

 

[slowpoke]

Canticle For Leibowitz speedrun baby, let's go

 

[cicalinarrot]

I just want Google Search to find the info I’m looking for without showing pages of irrelevant links. Their search algorithms have gone seriously wrong somewhere along the line.

The infamous saying "you're not the customer, you're the product" is so true for Google.
You don't pay for it, you're not the one who should be satisfied. Their customers, people who pay the an ungodly amount of money, probably are.

 

[svish]

Interesting. Will try this out soon. If it works well, it will be very useful in some cases.

 

[Fuzzball84]

Dumbing, dumbing, dumbing down

How apt for today’s age. We want it simple and we want it fast. Next.

 

[Fuzzball84]

The great ‘dumbing down’ continues.

Between this and LLMs writing things for people, creating their images & crafting their entertainment, humanity will eventually not need to lift a finger while our ‘enslavement’ to technology becomes complete.

The past 20 years has seen dumbing down in almost all aspects of life. People don’t have the time, concentration, or patience. Everything is short term gratification.

 

[Robert.Walter]

Stupidly dumbing down to the lowest common denominator.

 

[amartinez1660]

I disagree with a lot of the dumbing down comments… life have gotten needlessly complex, ensh!tificated and drowned in rules and regulations.
I think we need this…

Before you would buy a car and it just worked, you would go to a bank wait in line for 2mins and they would solve your problem.

Today you buy an overpriced car packed with 3000 needless sensors, where changing the oil requires a visit to the dealership because access is behind one of the wheels and might be computer locked, and when just sitting tons of lights and nagging sounds start tripping up… also make sure to pay for your heating seats subscriptions.

Try to do your bank thing that’s slightly outside of the preset automated norms and good luck getting someone on the line in a reasonable amount of time that also happens to speak somewhat clear English (and/or Spanish or French in my case).

Google search… come on, that thing stopped working a decade ago. It became needlessly complex in its results too, I now always put “Reddit” and the end of the search query.

We need to dumb down our lives, since I did I have saved so much money, have gained so much free time to do anything I want and got out of so much stress.

But I digress, by all means, complain away about simplifying things… go ahead and complexify it even more. We do need that type of people after all.

 

[Aeronauts]

The infamous saying "you're not the customer, you're the product" is so true for Google.
You don't pay for it, you're not the one who should be satisfied. Their customers, people who pay the an ungodly amount of money, probably are.

I deliberately don’t click on the sponsored links section at the top. I will scroll down to find the non sponsored link so Google are making zero profit from me.

 

[cicalinarrot]

I deliberately don’t click on the sponsored links section at the top. I will scroll down to find the non sponsored link so Google are making zero profit from me.

Everything you do is still precious data for them.

 

[delsoul]

No, thanks. Google can’t be trusted and is shady as they come