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by xNeil 816 days ago
It's not about just ad revenue though, is it? Many thousands, if not millions of sites rely entirely on Google Search for their revenue. You cannot simply replace all of them with a chatbot - there are massive consequences to such decisions.
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>It's not about just ad revenue though, is it? Many thousands, if not millions of sites rely entirely on Google Search for their revenue.

I mean these are kind of tangled together. Chatbots actively dilute real sites from what we are seeing, by feeding back into their fake into googles index in order to capture some of the ad revenue. This leads to the "Gee Google is really sucking" meme we see more and more often. The point is, Google had an absolute cash cow and the march towards GenAI AGI threatens to interrupt that model just as much as it promises to to make the AGI winner insanely rich.