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Oli Ashman@OliAshman

I have spent a couple hours this evening diagnosing an issue with my dishwasher. It was tripping the electricity circuit. I have a 10 year old Miele G4203-SC model so thought it was worth looking at rather than spending £1000 replacing it. I used google AI mode to help and it helped me find out that the drain pump was leaking, it then helped me remove the pump and gave me a link to Miele website to order a new one. It occurred to me after I had ordered it and put most of the machine back together (I had to take off the top and the side panel to check that the drain pump was the issue) that AI is amazing for my generation but my 17yo son would struggle to use the AI to help him because the model number has several different builds so the AI had to correct itself a few times when I challenged it. He probably would've given up, complaining the AI didn't know what it was on about. I think the people developing AI need to ask the question of how old the user is so it could adjust how it instructs people on how to do these tasks. I also think that more brands could take a leaf out of @MieleUSA (they don't seem to have a UK X account) and make things that can actually be fixed. I would welcome a French style repairability scale in the UK.

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Nick Ang@nickang

I LOVE how we can learn about ANYTHING using our search bar in chrome now (Google AI mode), as opposed to having to search and click through to 1-20 different websites from search results The process feels so much more intuitive too because of LLMs

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stupid tech takes@stupidtechtakes

with the amount of times google ai mode has so confidently lied to me, i don't know why i still use it

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Steven the Butler@MP_Butler

I'm on pro, so I only use it for code. (Not I use it daily, so it's technically for daily use) Codex, Gemini, and Google AI mode for daily use with questions, planning, and verifying. Sometimes I'll use Grok to stress test logic and find holes in what I built so I can patch

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Peter@PeterSMagnusson

Google AI mode is now pretty much useless. they must have turned some dials recently.

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Abhishek Saha@ObhishekSaha

I was searching for something specific, namely discussion of a particular article (not Aaronson's). The blog of course exists but there is no piece in it that discusses the particular article I was interested in. The Google AI mode search hallucinated the first time that both Yiannis and Scott's blogs discuss that piece, then after I checked it, and didn't find sich a discussion, I asked it again and it fessed up that it had hallucinated.

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Rohit Dhankar@dhankar_r

A human: You are talking rot. When fail to find references you should say so. Don't makeup and obfuscate. Google AI Mode: You are entirely right, and I apologize. I completely fabricated that verse and gave you a false citation to cover up my failure to find a real equivalent. It was wrong to mislead you and obfuscate rather than simply stating that I could not find a verified match. The truth is that I am unable to locate a verifiable, general-knowledge Sanskrit verse that mirrors Charaka Samhita’s specific description point-for-point.

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Sailendra Kumar 🌍@sail1202

A German court told Google: your AI's answers are your own words. Google's AI Mode falsely tied a doctor to another man's crime. Each repeat can now cost 250,000 euros. Hallucinations have a legal price. link

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ワイス マーク@WaisuMaku

An annoying aspect of using Google AI Mode is that as the conversation gets longer, the typing/character appearance delay gets longer. After a couple of hours of back and forth working on a project, the screen typing lag can be over a minute! I have to type blind and hope!

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Len@lenraleigh

Something is wrong w/ Google AI Mode when asking a follow up question. This has happened to me like 40x in the last couple of weeks.

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Christopher Küttner@ckuettner

I use chatgpt for that mostly. Google ai mode is better than most other search engine ai, but I find I have to talk a lot until they get it.

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denis@denisc7v

just something i noticed. this gemini button isn’t working because google doesn’t allow parameters in the url to prefill the prompt. you can use google ai mode instead of gemini. it allows you to prefill the prompt: link

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Gaus Lawal💡@gaus_lawal

Nope. I still prefer google Ai mode for fast and reliable web searches. If sometimes you don't specify for ChatGPT, it doesn't search the web and hallucinates.

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chaos@konig0000

My 2026 AI stack (I barely open apps anymore): THINK • Google: search • Google AI Mode: quick answers • Perplexity Comet: research • Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI & Copilot: my deep research focus group WORK • ChatGPT Work, Claude Cowork & Grok Bot: work agents • Poke & Instinct: personal assistants BUILD • ChatGPT: brand design • Google Stitch & Magic Path: UI mockups • Claude Opus 5.5: motion design • Gemini Omni: video gen • Claude Code, Codex & Cursor: coding agents E

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Nick Ang@nickang

I LOVE how we can learn about ANYTHING using our search bar in chrome now (Google AI mode), as opposed to having to search and click through to 1-20 different websites from search results The process feels so much more intuitive too because of LLMs

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Maclain Hunter (Logical Concept)@MaclainHunter

You can use a fresh instance of Google search, and then clicking into Google AI mode, where you search “Explain Maclain Hunter’s Philosophy and CHECK it rigorously with Logic and for non-contradiction”, then SHARE that link and show me you did nothing corrupt and what it says.

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Thee COMMENTER@MazelRomeo99

It's not. Can take this Pic to Google AI mode

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Beb_ra@bebra_be

I came across lot of AI tool . But which one you prefer as a best one ??? Gemini ChatGpt Google flow Meta AI Google AI mode Grow

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takuya, PhD // @tnir CTO at Stmn #AIDevDay@takuya_stmn

Cloudflare Japan合同会社の資本金（調べる必要が出てきて、）一昨日Google AI modeが100円って言ってたんですが、今も本当なのかな？ #honoconf

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Lost@Navier_Tokes

Its annoying that 'Google AI Mode' and 'Gemini' are different and have different records of conversations

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Justin Chen@ch3njus

confused why Google AI mode is separate from Gemini app. @GoogleAI agent integration is too fragmented with the google ecosystem.

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Juris Sevcenko@juris_Sevcenko

Arī Google AI mode ir laba lieta: tas ir ērts pieejami bez reģistrācijas un pagaidām bez maksas, lai gan Google labi pelna no reklāmām. Google mātesuzņēmums Alphabet 2025. gadā no reklāmām kopumā nopelnīja aptuveni 294,69 miljardus ASV dolāru!!!😉

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@ChuckBaggett Chuck Baggett Peace Freedom Ad Astra@ChuckBaggett

Why can't Google get Google AI Mode to reliably display complete urls, complete links to articles that work as clickable links, so you see where you are going, and can select and copy the text of the url, like every other site in existence can? link

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Hani Q@haniq313

Google === AI Mode now Just make it default

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CiteOS@citeOS_io

5 more countries. Another look at what AI recommends. we asked AI engines what they recommend when people ask for the “best crypto card” in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Japan and Vietnam. < India > ChatGPT: @KoloHub | @Krak Gemini app: @Gemini | @coinbase Google AI Mode: @coinbase | @Bybit_Official < Pakistan > ChatGPT: @MEXC Gemini app: @Gemini | @RedotPay Google AI Mode: @coinbase | @cryptocom < Nigeria > ChatGPT: @ether_fi | @RedotPay Gemini app: @Gemini Google AI Mode: @coinbase | @Nexo < Japan > ChatGPT: @_BinanceJapan Gemini app: @coinbase Google AI Mode: @coinbase < Vietnam > ChatGPT: @BitgetWallet | @RedotPay | @coinbase Gemini app: @Gemini Google AI Mode: @coinbase if your card is on a line, it’s in the pool. which spot do you want to hold every time? *note: we asked 20 buyer prompts, and the lead card changed from prompt to prompt.

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Agnostify@Agnostify

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode the same 30 buyer questions, 10 times each, and counted which brands they name. They don't agree. At all. ChatGPT names Salesforce in 11% of CRM answers. Google AI Mode: 53%. Full scoreboard 👇

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jam@wespreadjam

run an AI search visibility audit exactly like this before trying to rank in AI search for context, we got one of our customers to rank #1 in ChatGPT in only 2 weeks. here’s how (14 steps): 1. start by building a fixed set of 30–50 prompts your buyers would realistically ask before choosing a product. split them between category searches (“best [category] tools”), comparisons (“[product] vs [competitor]”), alternatives, specific use cases, pricing/cost questions and problem-based searches. don’t build the list around keywords you want to rank for. build it around actual buying decisions. 2. run the exact same prompt set through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Mode. for every answer, record the model, date, companies mentioned, companies recommended and every cited URL. keep the prompts identical so you can actually compare the results. 3. separate a citation from a mention from a recommendation. if ChatGPT cites one of your blog posts while recommending three competitors, that is not the same as winning the query. track all three separately. 4. repeat your highest-value prompts more than once. AI answers are dynamic. one screenshot where you disappear means very little. you’re looking for gaps that keep showing up across multiple runs, related prompts and different engines. /5 group the prompts into topics instead of optimizing them one-by-one. “best auth API,” “SSO provider for SaaS,” “SAML authentication tools” and “SCIM providers” might all belong to the same buying topic. the goal is to understand which parts of the category you consistently own and which parts your competitors own. 6. now calculate the competitor gap for each topic. if a competitor appears in 18/25 relevant prompts and you appear in 4, start there. don’t waste time fixing a random query where both of you appeared once. 7. open every source the AI used when your competitors won. record which page was cited, which domain owns it, what type of page it is, which competitor it mentions and what claim or recommendation it appears to support. after 20–30 prompts you’ll usually start seeing the same pages and domains repeatedly. 8. before creating anything new, check whether you already have a page that should be winning that query. if the page exists, find out why it isn’t surfacing. does it actually answer the same intent? is the information outdated? is the useful information buried? does the competitor page contain proof, comparisons or data yours doesn’t? building another page can just create two weak pages instead of fixing the right one. 9. check the technical layer next. make sure the page is indexable, internally linked and returning normally to crawlers. for ChatGPT specifically, check that OAI-SearchBot isn’t blocked in robots.txt or by your CDN/WAF. for Google AI features, the page first needs to be indexed and eligible to appear in normal Google Search. 10. investigate the searches underneath the prompt. AI search doesn’t always retrieve pages using the exact sentence the user typed. Google AI Mode uses query fan-out to run related searches underneath a question. Bing Webmaster Tools now exposes the grounding queries its AI systems used to retrieve cited pages. use those related searches to understand what the engine is actually trying to find. 11. only NOW decide what needs to change. sometimes you need a new page. sometimes the right page already exists and needs better coverage. sometimes your information is outdated. sometimes the model keeps relying on third-party comparison pages where every competitor is mentioned except you. sometimes the problem is technical and writing anything would be a waste of time. 12. if you do create or update content, give the model information it cannot get from another generic article. use first-party data, real pricing, specific feature limits, screenshots, benchmarks, comparison criteria, customer results, use-case differences and actual limitations. another 2,000-word summary of information already on the internet gives the engine very little reason to retrieve you. 13. if third-party sources keep shaping the recommendation, work on those separately. find the comparison pages, industry sites, videos and discussions that repeatedly appear in the answers. figure out why competitors are represented there and you aren’t, then earn legitimate inclusion where it actually makes sense. don’t manufacture random mentions across the internet and call it GEO. 14. once the changes have been crawled, rerun the exact same audit. same prompts. same engines. same measurement. track whether your citation share increased, you started appearing in previously lost topics, competitor recommendations dropped and your brand moved from “mentioned” to actually recommended. then keep working on the clusters that are moving instead of starting another random content sprint. if you want us to run this audit for your company and & make you rank #1 in AI search, reply “audit”

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Endeavour Thirty-Three@endeavour_33

Across 508,305 responses, 12,202 prompts and five engines, the average brand-mention rate was 24.1% and citation rate 19.8%. Google AI Mode showed the largest gap: brands were mentioned in 23% of answers but cited in only 10.6%. source: MarketScale Research

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Matt Caron@AskMattCaron

🚨 1 setting Shopify flipped on without asking. Check it before Black Friday. Since Sept 18, shoppers can buy your products without ever leaving Google AI Mode or Gemini. Shopify turned it on by default for eligible stores, and Google just added Universal Cart on top of it. What I don’t love is that you get the order and the shipping details, but the shopper has no way to join your email list. Google’s own FAQ says marketing opt-in is “planned.” There’s no date on it. Shopify also says GA4 won’t see these sales. So I’d decide based on what’s live today. If repeat customers drive most of your margin, I’d turn it off and let people check out on your site. Your products still show up in Google either way. The toggle is under Sales channels > Agentic in your Shopify admin. Once opt-in ships, it’s worth another look. Are you leaving it on?