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I literally just googled that exact search inquiry and it told me all about Kenya. What's the problem again, and why are all these comments pretending the so-called glitch is real?
This just happened for me.
Google's Mysterious Proprietary Algorithm shows different results to different people. Why are you pretending that other people are pretending?
Not pretending, happened exactly as OP said.
I don't know what you're talking about. No one's "pretending" here. I just OCR copy/pasted the exact same text and got the same (wrong) result, just like others here have...
I just did it. It told me there were no countries in Africa that start with K, except for Kenya, which starts with K. That obviously doesn't make any sense, and sounds suspiciously similar to a lot of chatGPT-generated content (the distinguishing factor being that it sounds confidently incorrect, and contradicts its own statements). Then it said some stuff about how fun it is to learn new things, 100% reeks of shitty AI-generated content. I can post a screenshot if you want proof.
I believe you. Maybe it depends on browser, whether you are logged in, things like that?
This is the first result at the top spelled out succinctly:
Next link was worldometer with Kenya pulled up first.
Is this what you saw?
Human:
Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with the letter "k"?
ChatGPT:
Yes, that's correct! While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.
That was in the third or fourth link down. Sort of makes sense if it is trending or whatever.
Oh yeah, the chatGPT text you posted is word-for-word identical to the google result. Could be any number of factors affecting the pagerank I guess.