The astronomical events this week start September 16th according to AI Overview. Isn't that 2 weeks from now? So instead I went directly to a space website - starwalk.space - to see the September calendar with something going on up there all month long. There's a Full moon - Blood Moon - a total lunar eclipse on September 7th visible across Australia, Asia, Africa, Russia and Europe. Parts of western North America and other places, except us. Then there's a partial solar eclipse on September 21st. You will need to go to New Zealand and Anarctica. Or wait around and the next solar eclipse is in 343 days - Aug 12 2026 - visible from Russia, Greenland, Iceland and Spain.
Doesn't that make you nostalgic for the total eclipse of the sun that we had early in 2025?
I know that the AI Overview needs to be removed from my searching - I shouldn't trust its results as being factual. Google Safari does not allow for the AI response to be turned off. There's an easy answer - switch to DuckDuckGo to turn it off there. Now I get a nice listing of sites with a calendar of astronomical events.
As I start to use DuckDuckGo more, I observe it to be less of a shopping experience. The most sponsored products on google? Google AI tells me that it is: beauty and personal care, home and living, electronics and smart home, hair care, retail and e-commerce platforms and sunscreen. I actually think it is gutter cleaning. Somehow that shows up every day. I expect you might have a product that haunts you regularly.
Ask the question of the most sponsored products on google using duckduckgo.com and a different list of results happens.There are articles explaining how Google sponsored ads work, there's information on how shopping results are generated, and so on.
A short-term fix for the invasion of AI. I'll take it while it is here.
Here's one of those pictures to guess what it is. It is a detail section of an outdoor sculpture in a botanical garden.
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