has google, which is primarily an ad company, thought through replacing search links with AI regurgitation?
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has google, which is primarily an ad company, thought through replacing search links with AI regurgitation? pretty sure if they cause an apocalypse on the web by no longer referring traffic, they lose their ad revenue too
or do they really think that people will just pay them to surface their stuff in AI chatboxes? cause, i don't think that's gonna go the way they think
like. what's the plan here? *is* there even a plan?
@eniko I'd attribute this to three things:
1. They've mostly given up on innovating on computer interface. This LLM craze is in many ways an extension of the previous voice assistant one;
2. LLMs are expensive and they salivate at the idea of you being dependent on them (see cloud storage);
3. They're Google, exceedingly self-conscious and irrational. Managers saw people on Reddit and HN bigging up OpenClaw, Claude, etc and feared they're not 'innovating' enough. So they innovated (copied). -
has google, which is primarily an ad company, thought through replacing search links with AI regurgitation? pretty sure if they cause an apocalypse on the web by no longer referring traffic, they lose their ad revenue too
or do they really think that people will just pay them to surface their stuff in AI chatboxes? cause, i don't think that's gonna go the way they think
like. what's the plan here? *is* there even a plan?
