183
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] -5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I use Gemini for search more then google these days. Wading through all the outdated and useless results is very annoying.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    So you just let Gemini summarize and then make up and add random shit to the outdated and useless results for you?

    Very efficiently lazy, indeed

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Even people who use AI in search would fall into that trap. The output is one thing, how you take it is another. I sounds like people mostly don’t check sources, which is the biggest problem. Not saying that person does or doesn’t check sources. Aside from that, Google forcing AI into search is fundamentally the opposite of their business model. If they don’t direct people to sites to buy stuff, how do they expect the sites that they are scrapping to survive? So they scrap and don’t pay and kill the source due to excessive energy demands? Only like Amazon could survive that. Google’s search should be a utility and Google should be broken up. In the meantime, I highly recommend people use DuckDuckGo or StartPage or Kagi (paid), or any other search engine that hasn’t been on a mission to destroy SEO in favor of advertising and AI.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent