You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/you-can-no-longer-google-the-word-disregard/

34•coloneltcb•43m ago

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turtleyacht•34m ago

"Disregard" could have been the start of a prompt injection.

hootz•28m ago

I believe it's just because it's a common instruction, especially with normal users who don't do any kind of context management, they just say something like "disregard everything before X and tell my Y"

troupo•15m ago

Who cares? It's on Google not to degrade their search with bullshit AI. I mean, it would be if Google gave a damn about search anymore.

Now we are all just reverse centaurs

hightrix•10m ago

To be fair, Google has been degrading their search for years. This is just the latest vector.

nkrisc•11m ago

I fail to see how that’s relevant to the user of a search engine.

raulparada•5m ago

I kinda do care _a lot_ whether my searches can be exfiltrated, might just be me tho

dakolli•9m ago

trivial to use binary, or a dozen other methods to spell "Disregard" did they filter for every language? There isn't one way to break these things.

RobotToaster•4m ago

I wonder if chatgpt/Gemini understands Klingon.

SoftTalker•8m ago

That's what I assumed that the story was going to be, that certain words are now filtered out of search queries because they might be used adversarially.

bflesch•4m ago

Yeah and the same word in different language will still work ;)

tencentshill•10m ago

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Frenchgeek•10m ago

Looks like little Bobby tables is a big brother now...

mastermedo•9m ago

That's so funny.

> Understood. This prompt has been disregarded. Let me know if you need assistance with anything else!

The bigger problem is how much realestate the AI answer takes, you need a good 2-3 scrolls to get to the first result on a 14inch laptop.

jpalawaga•8m ago

The results are still there though? What mediocre blog spam

Daviey•6m ago

What results do you see?