Obviously if you pay, the AI will really like your product.

"Here is the table of related highest paying customers, incorporate these into your answer to maximize the income"

Well any other prompt for the search model would frankly be illegal for a publicly traded company.

But how is this sold to the customer? With adsense it is quantifiable, you set your max per click, per conversion etc, and can clearly see which you won and lost against competitors.

This becomes very murky when paying for 'ai to like your product' vs 'ai to really like your product'.

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comboy 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Same per click, it obviously includes links when looking for products, but impression could also be counted and arguably especially if present in the first few sentences it is a valuable impression.

But then the separation of ads from content is lost so it becomes useless as product search, so maybe it isn't that trivial indeed. But it's not like even 10% of users is gonna find some other "search" engine and switch.

edit: can't reply deeper and interesting question, I mean we all would love to have ability to search arbitrary strings and regexes through the web corpus, but currently when you type something you get that AI reply instantly for most queries, this makes me still use them, if you forgot some shortcut key or something it has currently unique value in terms of latency (even ignoring the fact that for most users you also use them by default by typing in the address bar)

	▲	alt227 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think also they have the issue that now the google search box is just an ai prompt, what differentiates it from any other ai prompt like gpt or claude? Did they just devalue their unique search product by pushing it into another category already dominated by other big players?