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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by rf15 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:56AM (#50361921)
Sometimes I do wonder why it's hard to see that you shouldn't invest in AI, let Sam Altman hoover up all compute hardware and then make a surprise pikachu when hardware sales of your user base decline. Same for Google: "what, if I stop people from going to websites because I let a bot summarise what they're looking for, I get less money from website visits?"

At this rate (I know I keep beating that drum), I think we cannot have AI: it is too self-defeating from a business pov.

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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by dubeyaayush07 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:07AM (#50361960)
It's not like Google had a choice, asking AI is superior to browsing links in 90% percent of use cases. They would have been disrupted.
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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by catlikesshrimp on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:17AM (#50362026)
Browsing a curated list of the worst SEO generated spam, sure. Anything is better. Wait for SEO advertising to come to AI summary.
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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by dubeyaayush07 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:25AM (#50362069)
Yeah but there is more competition in that space which might delay/slowdown the inevitable enshitification
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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by simulator5g on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:51AM (#50362215)
It's already here, ask AI for a product recommendation and it will recommend whichever company has the highest Reddit astroturfing budget.
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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by tliltocatl on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:41PM (#50371200)
Google search became considerably worse around 2019 when they started using LLMs for indexing, which make it ignore keywords it deemed "irrelevant".
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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by kristianp on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:07AM (#50361962)
Just a clarification, Google's search revenue actually went up in their latest quarterly reporting. It just didn't go up as far as analysts were predicting.
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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by rf15 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:21AM (#50362737)
Yes, but the logical ouroboros should be evident:

- make money from ad views

- make people place ads on many websites, so a lot of ads can be shown

- use made money to build AI summary

- AI summary prevents people from visiting many websites

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