Google buries – After Google rolled out a revamped Search experience built around AI summaries, typing the word “disregard” appears to trigger an AI response that leaves Merriam-Webster users scrolling past a large empty area—while the page offers little or no useful value fo
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and pushing the traditional “10 blue links” far down the page.
For most people, the shift is exactly what it sounds like: fewer quick results, more AI-first answers. But Google’s sheer scale also means edge cases slip through. One of them shows up instantly if you type the word “disregard” into Google Search.
The result isn’t subtle. There’s the Merriam-Webster link—yes—but it sits buried behind a huge block of empty space. For most users, that Merriam-Webster reply is the only useful item they’ll even notice. And crucially. the AI response that sits above it “serves no conceivable value” for someone searching for a single dictionary definition. In practice, it looks less like a feature and more like a broken tool.
The change has drawn flak on social media, and the screenshots circulating make the complaint easy to understand: the page asks people to scroll past nothing to reach the one reference they actually need.
Bing’s version of the same search is also shown in the comparison. It’s not perfect, but it’s less aggressive about AI summaries. The Merriam-Webster information is easier to find, and the page contains “some useful information” rather than an AI response that doesn’t seem to help.
For a tech journalist who has covered the industry for nearly 15 years, the difference is striking. Before today, they say they couldn’t think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent—until this one. “There really is a first time for everything!”
Google’s broader Search overhaul may be moving users toward AI-driven answers, but for a straightforward word lookup like “disregard,” the experience appears to fail at the basic task of getting people to the right place—quickly.
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