[lelanthran]

> How would that be possible? In the past I used Google maybe 10 times a day with a short query. From which Google had to guess my intent. Now I babble with Gemini all day about everything. And Gemini can ask questions what exactly I mean. Why wouldn't Alphabet be able to generate more revenue from this than from search?

When you used google 10x a day, you saw, at a minimum, 20 ads/day. How many ads are you seeing when you babble all day long with a chatbot?

[JumpCrisscross]

> When you used google 10x a day, you saw, at a minimum, 20 ads/day. How many ads are you seeing when you babble all day long with a chatbot?

There is also way more competition between chatbots than there was between search engines after Google started leaning into ads. Which strengthens the Khan-Esayas hypothesisis "that data privacy constitutes a key parameter of non-price competition in the market for" consumer tech [1][2].

[1] https://yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.pdf

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327111419_Privacy_a...

[pjc50]

> How many ads are you seeing when you babble all day long with a chatbot?

You wouldn't see any of them, because you'd not be aware of the invisible bidding war over which products the bot recommends.

[netdevphoenix]

> When you used google 10x a day, you saw, at a minimum, 20 ads/day

That's assuming a user with no ad-blocker which is an ever diminishing number of users

[watwut]

We are talking about income from ads. It comes from people who see ads.