Gemini 3 Deep Think

Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by Ozzie_osman on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:19PM (#46993652)

Peacetime Google is not like wartime Google.

Peacetime Google is slow, bumbling, bureaucratic. Wartime Google gets shit done.

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by nutjob2 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:38PM (#46993942)

OpenAI is the best thing that happened to Google apparently.

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by RationPhantoms on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:29PM (#46994664)

Competition always is. I think there was a real fear that their core product was going to be replaced. They're already cannibalizing it internally so it was THE wake up call.

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by taurath on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:19PM (#46996091)

Just not search. The search product has pretty much become useless over the past 3 years and the AI answers often will get just to the level of 5 years ago. This creates a sense that that things are better - but really it’s just become impossible to get reliable information from an avenue that used to work very well.

I don’t think this is intentional, but I think they stopped fighting SEO entirely to focus on AI. Recipes are the best example - completely gutted and almost all receive sites (therefore the entire search page) run by the same company. I didn’t realize how utterly consolidated huge portions of information on the internet was until every recipe site about 3 months ago simultaneously implemented the same anti-Adblock.

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by miohtama on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:55AM (#46999383)

The search product become useless on a particular day of 2019 as discussed on HN News some time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by koolala on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:39PM (#46996296)

Next they compete on ads...

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by lern_too_spel on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:27PM (#46994644)

Wartime Google gave us Google+. Wartime Google is still bumbling, and despite OpenAI's numerous missteps, I don't think it has to worry about Google hurting its business yet.

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by NikolaNovak on Thursday February 12, 2026 @06:26PM (#46996749)

I do miss Google+. For my brain / use case, it was by far the best social network out there, and the Circle friends and interest management system is still unparalleled :)

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by blinding-streak on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:34AM (#46999963)

Google+ was fun. Failed in the market though.

Apple made a social network called Ping. Disaster. MobileMe was silly.

Microsoft made Zune and the Kin 1 and Kin 2 devices and Windows phone and all sorts of other disasters.

These things happen.

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by Peaches4Rent on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:53AM (#47003393)

I have a hypothesis that Google+ just wasn't addictive. Which is a good thing now, but not back then

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Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think by machiaweliczny on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:07AM (#47004289)

Windows Phone was actually good. I would even say that my Lumia something was one of best experiences ever on mobile. G+ was also good. Efficient markets mean that you can "extract" rent, via selling data or attention etc. not realy what is good

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