The past 5 years Google went downhill. If they lose the ability to search, users and ad revenue follow.
Re:Introducing Notion AI
by lucasmullens on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:09PM
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> I expect search engines to be more like an AI assistant.
> I don’t think Google can pull that off.
Does Google Assistant not count? Searching for things with the assistant is certainly one of its main features.
Re:Introducing Notion AI
by spaceman_2020 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:55PM
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I'm thinking more like some of the demos I've seen of Adept AI, where you type in (or speak) a complex command and it does the job for you. Like telling the assistant to "find flights to New York between 15th and 18th December that are under $250".
Regardless, if the future of search is less a list of pages and more a set of focused, customized results, I can't see how Google will work in that context. Google, so far, has shown zero ability to monetize anything that can't be papered over with ads.
I think it will go the opposite way. Spend some time physically inside your local library.
All the search results are from experts, and have been proofread and stuff. None are ad-supported, and very few are paid-placement.
I expect search engines to be more like an AI assistant.
I don’t think Google can pull that off. Not because they don’t have the expertise for it (they do) but because their organisation is built around monetizing ads and an AI assistant might not work with it.