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Same on iOS
by xwat
What does the icon look like?
by n1xis10t
No this is also happening to me as well
Many links on Google Now or whatever they call it these days (sodebar on android) dont work. I have Brave browser set to have shields off an my pihole dns is not blocking. It acts like a dead domain.
by eliotrw
Mine has a little world symbol, the article was "restricted eating hours may protect brain health" supposedly by the guardian posted 15 hours ago.
There is an article about that by the guardian but has a different title and posted 3 hours ago
by Sleazus
I am also getting these on my mobile Chrome new tab/discover feed.
This one is for an Ars Technica story about Neuromancer… https://discover.aigc/?id=12944643404484710755
by mrseb
Seeing this too, mine was on a link to a bbc story, it redirected via share.google (aside: also super annoying) to the discover.aigc address (not found)
Hi,
Adding some context since I stumbled upon this thread looking for the same non existing domain:
The platform this appears on is Google Discover. It's native on android, available via the google app on iOS and desktop in some countries. It's a recommendation engine that learns about the user interests and (aims to) suggest the best fit.
AIGC is indeed an acronym for AI generated content. We already saw AI overviews on Discover, where several news were grouped under a cluster. This also happens on Google news.
Here, it seems like a Google experiment (or rather bug) where they used an internal or virtual domain, discover.aigc, that the devices can't resolve.
This domain appeared on Discover (and many different locales) days ago, and more concerning, is gaining visibility fast. It's now a few percent of the visibility, which is really a lot in terms of absolute numbers.
Disclosure: I work for a service that monitors Google Discover, why I saw this domain rising and dug. We wrote a first article here https://1492.vision/experiments/discover.aigc?lng=en with a bit more data, now waiting to see how long Google will take to fix it and what is supposed to be delivered behind that link (my take: a list of real publishers cards)
by Discover1492
I just had this happen, and this HN post was the first result when searching "what is discover.aigc" on google. The specific Discover Feed entry that led me to see this domain (within an ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED error) would've been (if the link actually worked) an Allrecipes article entitled "Over 12,000 pounds of bacon recalled" which, in my case is not not some shock-value nonsense (like I assume is the case for OP's experience) because there is, indeed, this Allrecipes article [0] along with this .gov article [1].
[0] https://www.allrecipes.com/maple-leaf-foods-bacon-recall-jul...
[1] https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/maple-leaf-foods-in...
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- Same on iOSby xwat
- What does the icon look like?by n1xis10t
- No this is also happening to me as well
Many links on Google Now or whatever they call it these days (sodebar on android) dont work. I have Brave browser set to have shields off an my pihole dns is not blocking. It acts like a dead domain.
by eliotrw - Mine has a little world symbol, the article was "restricted eating hours may protect brain health" supposedly by the guardian posted 15 hours ago.
There is an article about that by the guardian but has a different title and posted 3 hours ago
by Sleazus - I am also getting these on my mobile Chrome new tab/discover feed.
This one is for an Ars Technica story about Neuromancer… https://discover.aigc/?id=12944643404484710755
by mrseb - Seeing this too, mine was on a link to a bbc story, it redirected via share.google (aside: also super annoying) to the discover.aigc address (not found)
- Hi,
Adding some context since I stumbled upon this thread looking for the same non existing domain:
The platform this appears on is Google Discover. It's native on android, available via the google app on iOS and desktop in some countries. It's a recommendation engine that learns about the user interests and (aims to) suggest the best fit.
AIGC is indeed an acronym for AI generated content. We already saw AI overviews on Discover, where several news were grouped under a cluster. This also happens on Google news.
Here, it seems like a Google experiment (or rather bug) where they used an internal or virtual domain, discover.aigc, that the devices can't resolve.
This domain appeared on Discover (and many different locales) days ago, and more concerning, is gaining visibility fast. It's now a few percent of the visibility, which is really a lot in terms of absolute numbers.
Disclosure: I work for a service that monitors Google Discover, why I saw this domain rising and dug. We wrote a first article here https://1492.vision/experiments/discover.aigc?lng=en with a bit more data, now waiting to see how long Google will take to fix it and what is supposed to be delivered behind that link (my take: a list of real publishers cards)
by Discover1492 - I just had this happen, and this HN post was the first result when searching "what is discover.aigc" on google. The specific Discover Feed entry that led me to see this domain (within an ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED error) would've been (if the link actually worked) an Allrecipes article entitled "Over 12,000 pounds of bacon recalled" which, in my case is not not some shock-value nonsense (like I assume is the case for OP's experience) because there is, indeed, this Allrecipes article [0] along with this .gov article [1].
[0] https://www.allrecipes.com/maple-leaf-foods-bacon-recall-jul...
[1] https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/maple-leaf-foods-in...
by hunter2_