[agumonkey]

Their brand is almost cooked though. At least the legacy search part. Maybe they'll morph into AI center of the future, but "Google" has been washed away.

[bitpush]

World is much.. much bigger than HN bubble. Last year, we were all so convinced that Microsoft had it all figured out, and now look at them. Billion is a very, very large number, and sometimes you fail to appreciate how big that is.

[agumonkey]

Oh I'm conveying opinions other than mines, tech people I work with, that are very very removed from the HN mindset actually, were shitting on google search for a long time this week.

[lukan]

Google ads are still everywhere, if you google or not.

The question will be, when and how will the LLM's be attacked with product placements.

Open marked advertisement in premium models and integrated ads in free tier ones?

I still hope for a mostly adfree world, but in reality google seems in a good position now for the transition towards AI (with ads).

[tiahura]

Maybe they'll morph into AI center of the future

Haven't you been watching the headlines here on HN? The volume of major high-quality Google AI releases has been almost shocking.

And, they've got the best data.

[agumonkey]

who didn't ? I meant in the future, if this becomes a long term fruitful economic value (sorry but video and image generation have no value, it's laughable and used for cheap needs, and most of the time people are very annoyed by it).