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Doubling down on advertising is one possible path forward, but I don't think it's the only option. Google really does has the engineering talent to pivot to something different. Or maybe split out non-advertising parts of the company into semi-independent entities like Waymo, and actually charge for services.

The Gemini fiasco shows that there's still some amazing engineering talent under Google, and that this talent is completely wasted under Pichai's leadership.