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Google gave me a list of countries as the top hit. Bing did the same. Whoever wrote this article has an agenda.
I just tried it and I got the same result as the guy OP linked to. Google cited this website as the source:
https://www.emergentmind.com/posts/did-you-know-that-there-is-no-country-in-africa-that
I was able to duplicate the OP results just now. People not getting the promised results are probably on different Google instances.
I have seen both, on my phone I get the same chatgpt transcript that the toot gets
It's toot. With screenshots. And everyone surely knows by now that your search results are dependent on your search history. And, of course, LLM output is stochastic, not deterministic. It lies at random.
It's probably not due to that. The effect of search history tends to be overstated and blamed for any inconsistency. They're not making the search pageload wait on a live chatgpt call, the card is driven by contents of the linked website.
Differences usually are either intentional A/B Testing or artifacts of Google's global architecture. You hit Google twice you're talking to different servers potentially with different versions of software. Companies take advantage of that to see how user behavior compares between versions as a form of testing. Additionally, if you and someone in a different continent hit Google, you're not even using the same data center. Different databases/caches in those data centers will have different data at any one time but they'll eventually become consistent. That causes results to change both person to person and over time.
Take agenda at deez nuts