Did you see the part where their revenue was down because fewer ads were being served because people are using their stupid AI summaries instead of searches? God, these people are short-sighted.

Welcome to stock market, where the stock price is based on expectation instead of how well the company actually doing. There could be profit but if the profit is slightly less than last quarter, the day traders all gonna throw their baby tantrum.

Yet Tesla can do absolutely fucking nothing and then do a Nazi salute and shares go up 50%

The stock market is just rich people's feelings

They are trading at big growth multiples. So if the rate of growth slows then it gets repriced. Their assumption was double digit growth rate, which is one helluva bet.

You own land, and you decide to plant it full of one type of crop because the forecast promises you an excellent harvest. You don't have money, so you get a deposit from people buying the crop, in return of a certain share of the harvest. But most people that did so actually believe the forecast was very conservative and the crop will end up even bigger, so they'll expect more than you promised.

Then the forecast changes, and the harvest might end up smaller, and much smaller than the people expected. Some want their deposit back, but to do so they have to sell that share to someone else, but they buy it with the current forecast and demand, and pay way less for it.

People buying Caterpillar expected for a massive construction boom. Any kink to that forecast is going to cause some people to reconsider and pull their money to the next potential company able to fly to the moon.

This exact thing has been driving me crazy for like a decade now. Say a company makes $1 billion in profit one year, and the next year isn't as good but they make $800 million. Still a very profitable company, but because it was less then the year before it's considered horrible and the company is basically going out of business.

Company I worked at a couple years back not only beat their projected earnings, but made record profits highest quarter ever. Stock prices dropped by a third

So, their earnings beat expectations, but they didn't beat the expectations for how much they'd beat expectations, so the share price went down.

That's why I always say that big shot, institutional investors are a bunch of cunts. They always think in short term. That's why I am in favour of half year earnings report so that there is less pressure for companies to think in three months time.

Buyers are extremely edgy because they know we are teetering on the edge of a potential collapse.

They are making less off of AI overviews than traditional ads, but their AI buildout costs are increasing, which is ass backwards. I don't know if it was in their report but they also supposedly don't have a strategy for making their customers pay for AI use.

This also points out how the AI bubble is affecting the economy far beyond the tech sector.

Construction equipment used to be used for other things, not just building datacenters. But, since the start of the AI bubble, almost everything else has slowed down because they're dedicating so much construction equipment and workers towards building datacenters.

https://futurism.com/future-society/data-center-spending-ai-bubble-construction

In just 1 year, construction work on DCs has gone up by 64.5%. And, that's from 2025 to 2026. It's not like it was at a standstill in 2025. Meanwhile, residential construction is down significantly. And, there has been a 25% cut in construction related to manufacturing.

You should see NVIDIA stock after every earnings. They beat, by a lot. Stock goes down. Every fucking time. Stock market runs on vibes now.

Yep, this is why managing speculative investor expectations is as much a part of managing a modern publicly traded business as actually running the business.

Mass manipulation. I wish I were smart enough and had enough to bribe the right people to be in on the looting.

Wonder who will be in the bathtub explaining it this time

that'll be when they make some special exceptions to IPO openAI/anthrop8c into sp500 from the start like they did woth spaceX.

This is also what made the pensions shoot up 2x in about the last 4 years, so meh.

I asked my penis, she said start using the bitch. I said I beat you daily and she starts talking about ass and pussy and it's like I might be the second coming but I ain't no miracle worker, aight? Fucking get off my dick already, you fucking dick, amirite?

Best we can do is Shatner

Hey there Gemini man, play a song for me

Don't get our hopes up, Yoda

More ketamine, I must have. Crashed my Honda Civic, I did. Looking forward to withdrawals, I am not.

You can still search between dates, but not from the advance search page directly. After you search, if you hit "Tools" it let's you choose a date range.

Do a search, and in the results page, click on the "Tools" dropdown, go to "Any time", and then "Custom range...".

they did away with that around the same time they removed it from YouTube. probably because they knew people weren't going to read/watch AI generated bullshit.

jokes on them, I still found ways to search YouTube between dates.

Gazoline is at a record high, but I will happily fund a Jerrican to feed this fire.

DISCO INFERNO!

They revealed that they make less money on the AI Overview than traditional ads. Also they, supposedly, have no strategy to monetize AI use from their customers.

Edit: My bad, misread what the previous poster wrote. The explanation is still valid, though.

If you look at their historical price chart, what you call a "minor fluctuation" this is one if not the largest price changes in both absolute and relative terms of at least the last 5 years.

Also the trading volume was the largest since 2016.

Basically you're looking at an elephant and calling it a mouse.

It makes sense that a 12.6% stock price movement is a big thing for a company with that market cap and liquidity, since it has way less volatility that smaller companies because it takes way more money to move its price a mere 1%, plus the high liquidity means that the trading stack is far deeper and it's way harder for there to be a crunch because you can always find people willing to buy if the price falls enough (or, on the other direction, willing to sell if the price rises enough).

This ain't Joe's Corner Shop Inc.

That said, the price is still above a year ago, though by a mere 0.83%, so whilst this is a big price movement, it's far from having unwound the AI bubble stock price rise for Google - looking at its full historical price chart and roughly projecting the historical trend to present day, Alphabet stock price would have to fall around 50% more to return to historical trend and that's assuming that without the AI bubble it would have continued to go up as before rather than reduce to the typical growth rates of mature companies.

There was an article out about how ai search is 5 time more expensive than standard search, not sure where I saw it, but the whole stock market is basically gambling anyway, unless you have some kind of insider knowledge

It clearly is a bubble. But that doesn’t automatically mean AI is useless. The .com bubble was the biggest of them all, but lots of companies survived and business largely moved online. The data centres (which nobody likes but which is clearly providing some value to somebody, whether we like it or not) don’t disappear overnight if the bubble bursts.

thats why Google is pressuring reddit to force logins, they need to make more human generated content.

Buy! Buy! Buy!

I'll toss some oregano under my pits. If we're getting cooked I wanna smell tasty.