Re:AI Answers over Search: Is Google Digging Its Own Grave?
by semking on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @05:51PM
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Hey, thank you so much for this comment that I'm only discovering now!
First, I'm glad you were amused by my Linkedin trolling! :D
Next, I think we all wish the quality of Google Search were "static" but it is degrading instead.
What you mentioned is probably the reason and this is a quick observation I made at the beginning of this hiking video yesterday:
A few hours ago, I was replying to a post about "Gradual Disempowerment" from generative AI. My theory (just a guess, not researched like your case study!) is that Google and Apple (and maybe Microsoft and Amazon) are diverting CAPEX away from their core businesses to chase after AI chimeras. And as a result, the quality of their services (e.g. Google Search) is static or degrading. So, in order to improve Gemini, is Alphabet diverting resources from Google Search?
Over at Tyler Cowen's blog, this guy said Gemini got irritated when he cursed at it. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/gr... My comment is right after his (as Ellie Kesselman). Maybe you'll lol about Siri.