Doesn't having AI responses for searches kill their business model?
>>106578942People are lazy and want quick summaries. It's better for google than letting chatgpt eat their lunch.
>>106578942They still serve ads on the search results page, don't they?
>>106578942Why would it? They now have people, and more importantly big corporations, hooked on Gemini. They feed off user data (you) to help train their models (and of course ads, etc as always).
>>106578942the point is to make AI response so bad that you have to search
the most garbage responses too
>>106578942no, Google CEO says this:>I feel it’s the opposite. If anything, I feel like through AI Overviews, when you give people context, yes, there are times all people want is a quick answer and they bounce back. But overall, when we look at user journeys, when you give the context, it also exposes people to jumping-off points, and so they engage more. Actually, this is what drives growth over time. I look at desktop to mobile, and there were similar questions. In fact, there was a [magazine] cover I’m almost tempted to pull out, saying, “The web is dead.” There was a Google Zero argument 10 years ago. But you yourself made the point that it’s not an accident that we still remain as one of the largest referrers because we’ve cared about it deeply for a long, long time.>I look at our journey, even the last year through the Search Generative Experience, and I constantly found us prioritizing approaches that would send more traffic while meeting user expectations. We think through that deeply and we actually change our approach. If there are areas where we feel like we haven’t fully gotten it right, we are careful about rolling it out. But I think what’s positively surprising us is that people engage more, and that will lead to more growth over time for high-quality content.https://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai-search-gemini-future-of-the-internet-web-openai-decoder-interview
The thing it's killing is every other website that depends on people searching to find it. Google's goal is that you never leave their page, and it seems to be working.Where it will pull from once every other website is dead is anyone's guess.
