> their ads business is getting raked over the coals in court

only display ads business, which is a fraction of total ads revenue

It’s all wired together.

display ads probably wired to google infra, but google search + youtube + ads can exists on their own.

Product adoption counts, imaginary benchmarks don’t.

Tell me how Search AI Overviews aren't using Gemini?

I used the newly released gemini live mode. I thought they were positioning it against chatgpt live mode. But the voice is hilariously unnatural. It makes you not want to talk to it at all. If this is the best google can do, they are years behind the competition.

I just tried it after your message. It has like 5-10 voices. Many of them very reasonable, some of them quite good on my pixel phone.

I don't even have any options to choose a different voice. It's just a very mechanical voice. I feel the default google assistant voice was way better than this one.

People have been talking about the downfall of Google and FB/Meta for years now and yet every single year both of them still grow, still print money, and run the most used products in the world by far.

Google's generative ai models probably are used more in a day than the rest combined. Google is a highly profitable business that still has never not grown YoY in its nearly 3 decade history.

In you mind you might think Google is going down, but in reality they have only been going up for nearly 3 decades now.