Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yeah I want evidence for this. Please show me something that is even approaching the power of AdSense. Then do it for everything else they own. YouTube, Google maps, gmail, Android, the play store, etc.

    It’s this weird thing I see on lemmy “well I stopped using a product therefore it is dead”. News flash: Big Bang Theory ran for 12 seasons and Meta has a capitalization over half the countries of earth GDP.

    Problems don’t go away because you have decided to ignore them.

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      6 months ago

      What you are stating is nowhere near the point I was trying to make.

      We have seen a million times how a company can be destroyed for short term gains… Most recent public example is red lobster

      I have no clue if this is what’s going to happen to google… But my point was that have a good last quarter (the one associated with the new head of Search) is not an indication that his strategies will pan out … In fact, everything he touched before went the same way, short term profit, long term demise

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      6 months ago

      Seriously, most of the internet still uses that ban happy nonsense that is Reddit. I hate being referred then when I have problems, m,y account was perma-suspended over bullshit!

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      6 months ago

      FWIW they are cannibalizing ads right now with AI summaries, since people will navigate less to websites (in the world where they are useful, which they don’t seem to be at the moment).