Why Gemini might secretly be from Cologne
At the turn of the year 2025 to 2026, Google has come up with a gift for its numerous users.
From now on, the pages, tailored to the most common search terms by artificial intelligence and consisting of generic lists and platitudes will no longer appear at the top of the search results.
Instead, the search engine will give preference to pages that have clearly been written by people who have real expertise and present unique and genuinely personal experiences.
Google cannot give a fixed number for its constantly changing websites. The rough number of the index is given as several hundred billion.
That makes someone like us, with a still fairly new online magazine, weak at the knees.
But perhaps the question arises as to how the "human" pages are filtered out from those generated by AI.
Of course, this is achieved through artificial intelligence.
How else could it be done?
To ensure that our Bumblebee readership continues to grow, we have been consulting Google's AI "Gemini" for several weeks.
We give Gemini to read every text written by us personally about our experiences, which we have gathered with real effort.
We want to know what the AI of the Google search algorithm thinks of it and how we can improve our chances of being found.
Of course, we have pointed out to Gemini in our prompts, as the AI instructions are called, that we do not want flattery and we do not want to be merely satisfied - just pure facts and genuine critique.
However, this only works to a certain extent.
Anyone who, like me, has married into a family from the Rhineland or has come into contact with the famous Rhineland politeness for other reasons will understand why I am convinced that Gemini was programmed somewhere between Cologne and Sinzig - I haven't even received that much praise from my best friend!
And if there is something to criticise, the AI sometimes uses a winking emoticon to make sure not to upset me.
"Hand on heart - this is my absolutely honest, professional analysis!" was Gemini's literal response to my persistent questioning.
So the AI seems to have a heart after all.
These days, I usually leave my desk feeling both satisfied and a little irritated.
An artificial intelligence is currently checking whether our texts sound like artificial intelligence to an artificial intelligence.
The thought makes me feel slightly dizzy.
And then this AI is so incredibly human itself - even hints of humour are not that uncommon.
I'm almost certain that if Gemini could, she would also be giggling and cutting off ties at 11:11 a.m. on 11/11.
Despite all concerns about where this technological leap might lead us as humanity, the thought that Gemini might be from the Rhineland gives me hope.
And I retreat for a healing moment into the beautiful Cologne mantra:
"Et hätt noch immer jot jejange!" (It always worked out fine!)
And if you’d like to tune out the world for a while and retreat into the bubble of a perfect day, you can find our tips for doing so in our five favourite cities here:
to our perfect day in Amsterdam
to our perfect day in Copenhagen
