| ▲ | mingus88 10 hours ago |
| Google ads is dead precisely because their search product is dead. Ever since Google bought double click, their ads business has been their search business. They are the same product. |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > their search product is dead Do we have any evidence search volume is down? Don't get me wrong, I'm an avid Kagi user. But I'm sceptical anyone outside tech is using anything other than Google. |
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| ▲ | timnetworks 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | I watch people search for PlatformName Login every single day because they don't know how URLs work. Google isn't search. It's a crutch for people with too much time and money. p.s. not google labs, not tpu's, but specifically search. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Google isn't search. It's a crutch for people with too much time and money …wouldn’t this make it an advertiser’s dream? |
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| ▲ | TacticalCoder 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Google search ain't dead at all: it became so good something silly like 99% of all the queries have to be answered by the Google AI before the very first "result". And for those who want more, there's the "continue this discussion with Gemini". Now this may not be great for Google Ads (dunno about that) but Google search now works better than it ever did. |
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| ▲ | retsibsi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The AI summary is good enough often enough that it's tempting to rely on it. But, at least as of a week or two ago when I finally decided to block it, it still gets things badly wrong. (Sometimes seemingly inexplicably, but often because the results don't obviously contain an answer and yet the LLM is desperate to provide one.) | |
| ▲ | skeptic_ai 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Try to double check the AI inline response. Got it wrong way too many times to trust it now. |
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