Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn it less money than it earns by serving ads with its old-school search engine.

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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

They do, but they can't put 10 ads in one query like they can with search.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    They're also not getting ad payments from the website side, because people aren't going to the websites, if they're just stopping at AI search, and AI search is loading dozens of pages for them.

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