| ▲ | stingraycharles 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
This is not an elephant in the room, this is so obvious and discussed all the time. What else is Google going to do, give up their one and only goose that lays the golden eggs? Regular search being replaced with AI search means regular search (with ads) being replaced with AI search (with ads). The benefit of AI search will be that it’s much better “integrated” in the answer, aka even harder to detect. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | chilli_axe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Elephants in the room are obvious by definition. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | j_maffe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
But wouldn't that break FCC rules? | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | akoboldfrying 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> This is not an elephant in the room, this is so obvious. Maybe they grew up in an environment where the phrase "elephant in the room" meant a situation where people enter a room, notice an elephant there, and immediately scream "Jesus Christ there's a goddamn elephant!" | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | NitpickLawyer 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> their one and only goose that lays the golden eggs? Eh, it really isn't the only goose in goog town. Cloud is at ~20% of their total revenue, and probably is going up w/ their hardware success and other licensing deals. I'm curious to see what goog can do with their properties if this trend continues. Less reliance on ads could be interesting. (many former googlers have said that pressure from the ad business was felt across all their products) | |||||||||||||||||