put genAI into search.

Cost per search response skyrockets

Unable to monetize search anymore

get sued for providing factually incorrect answers in genAI responses

The greatest business minds of our generation.

Maybe I should switch back to Google, at least for video game/anime searches, because it's costing both Google and Fandom money. (Fandom runs fan wikis which are loaded with ads.)

AI injected ads LET'S GOOOO

Google: Our stock price will drop if we don't use AI

Also Google : Our revenue will drop if we use AI

They're all just ignoring that this product is largely unwanted and unnecessary.

And also doesn't work.

Hah! I switched to Startpage for search because of AI search results being garbage, I am sure as shit not paying for it.

If I pay for any search at all, it'd be Kagi, not Google, which has turned itself into a slop fueled dumpster fire not just in search but with their phones too.

I used to use Assistant all the time, but they killed it and tried to replace it with Gemini, which is fucking terrible at things the assistant was great at, like setting timers, navigating hands free, and setting reminders. It's so shitty I'm about to install Graphene or jump ship entirely to either iOS or just a dumb phone.

So far, the greatest driving force in me getting rid of all Google products is Google itself.

I hope this leads to the great rejection. Google is generally just stealing content, packaging it up and trying to give it to you without crediting any source. I think now people are much more protective of said information, even if they publish it at all. I don't know how long it'll take, but there will be less to scrape and train models on as time goes on. Everyone will also start rejecting these AI queries on their sites too.

I stopped using Google search in large part because I don't want AI search. Fuck em.

I just checked a sec ago, it's now down by 12% compared to yesterday

Lol, lmao even

The comedy is that Google can't figure out when to vomit a search result instead of a bot chat: halfway through asking follow-up if you do use the chatbot, it'll just shit a search result, laden with ads, and nothing else. But at that point you're asking follow-up questions that should use RAG in the back-end; you're not looking for "2012 search but with shittier results". At the same time, I'd seen responses to complex "find me a badminton court near a subway stop that is open early Saturday" queries with a response telling me to go search; when, bitch, you're the fucking search engine so YOU do it.

A company that makes their money from ads in search results just finds out that serving results that skip their promoted results is bad for them. Them decision makers are gooood!

Seriously, it's like power companies giving out solar panels.

the growth in ad spend is publishers trying to buy back their organic traffic that google is pilfering.

that's obviously not a sustainable position, just everyone panicking and trying to pump the numbers while they look for new business model and/or job.

Nice! I know it won’t happen, but I sure as shit hope so much that they go bankrupt. One can hope.

I guess they can just put the ads in the middle of the AI responses/searches?