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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by crims0n on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:53PM (#38041676)
Google has to be sweating bullets... their main cash cow is slowly being replaced with GenAI.
Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by johnmaguire on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:06PM (#38041851)
How much does it cost to run a GenAI query? There's lots of investment money flowing into this right now, and companies seem to be using the classic "lose money until you gain market dominance" approach, but I wonder whether it's really sustainable in the long-term.
Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by m3kw9 on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:58PM (#38041743)
They haven’t figured out how to monetize bard yet without pommeling their original search, so they are in a tight bind
Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by okdood64 on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:09PM (#38041882)
> is slowly being replaced with GenAI

How so exactly?

Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by datameta on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:15PM (#38041962)
People are getting synthesized answers from LLMs that replace googling, filtering, and skimming for the info you need. Unless I misunderstand your question.
Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by vasdae on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:09PM (#38043285)
If you are okay with made-up answers, then you don't even need to use Google to begin with.
Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by urtrs on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:14PM (#38043339)
Made-up answers are also a lot of the google search results.
Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by jatins on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:44PM (#38042311)
Google doesn't provide explicit search numbers for a user but I estimate with ChatGPT my own use of Google has probably gone down by 5%

Not huge, but not nothing

Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by mtkd on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:30PM (#38042835)
phind.com ($30/m for pro) is a step change more useful for any technical questions