You are providing only a small part of the result. If you provide the full result it make prefect sense why Google would suggest it.
When you search "when did the moon explode?". The full result is actually
> About an hour after sunset on June 18, 1178, the Moon exploded. That's what it looked like to five terrified, awestruck monks watching the skies over the abbey at Canterbury, in southeastern England, anyway.
Which links to an article about the story. It a well known story hence why it shows up when you search it.
When you search "when did lincoln shoot booth"
It doesnt say "Booth shot Lincoln in 1865". It literally gives you a summary of the "Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" with a link the Wikipedia.
Again to a human this is a perfectly fine result because if you are search "When did Lincoln shoot Booth" and this shows up you will realize oh im an idiot Linclon was actually shot by Booth lol.
These are both better results then if GPT would suggest the same with no proof. Google gives you a source for their result.
I often use search as keywords rather than searching by a short snippet of natural language. I do forms of "lincoln shot booth" as queries as my normal search engine usage.
And maybe I'm specifically looking for something which might be wrong? Like, maybe I'm looking for fictional story told as if Lincoln and Booth were in reversed roles?
When you search "when did the moon explode?". The full result is actually
> About an hour after sunset on June 18, 1178, the Moon exploded. That's what it looked like to five terrified, awestruck monks watching the skies over the abbey at Canterbury, in southeastern England, anyway.
Which links to an article about the story. It a well known story hence why it shows up when you search it.
When you search "when did lincoln shoot booth"
It doesnt say "Booth shot Lincoln in 1865". It literally gives you a summary of the "Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" with a link the Wikipedia.
Again to a human this is a perfectly fine result because if you are search "When did Lincoln shoot Booth" and this shows up you will realize oh im an idiot Linclon was actually shot by Booth lol.
These are both better results then if GPT would suggest the same with no proof. Google gives you a source for their result.