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by gfd 1188 days ago
Google's business model is entirely based off the fact that search is great for signaling intent, and that is great for selling ads.

A personalized AI assistant goes WAY beyond that. Whenever you talk to it, it can go into salesman mode to con you into buying shit you don't need.

Surely the economics will work out to still provide "free" searches.

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> Surely the economics will work out to still provide "free" searches.

Only for people with significant spending. Amazon Prime customers, for example.