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Nobody is going to use a chat-bot if it is (a) constantly trying to sell you something or (b) going to give you biased results that are influenced by advertising spend.

So OP is right that this model is going to be financially harmful to Google.

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> Nobody is going to use a chat-bot if it is (a) constantly trying to sell you something or (b) going to give you biased results that are influenced by advertising spend

I guess this is something that Google/search engines and other media like podcasts have had to navigate.

While it's not obvious how to best do it in this interface, I dunno, you still have a whole browser window to work with and the search engine solution (show the ads separately and labeled at the top) and the podcast solution (read the ads separately and clearly labeled) weren't super imaginative and seem to be working okay. Gmail ads on the right margin is maybe another example to point to.

I imagine there are probably plenty of UI things to experiment with that don't involve masking the advertisement as expert advice.

But yeah while this is all being sorted out I imagine it shrinks the monetizable surface of search a good bit.

[classified]

These exact things are alredy happening in Google search right now and people are still using it.

[threeseed]

Google ads are clearly located at the top.

Search results themselves are not influenced by how much money you pay them.