You're asking for something unreasonable. The number of Google searches per day is enormous and they haven't even been able to roll out AI overviews to everyone yet (they're missing in a new Firefox profile I just created). I wouldn't be surprised if the free tier frontier models cost over 100x more to serve than the AI overviews.

So then they should be pickier about when they show results or which model they use based on the question.

Nobody asked for an LLM response for every single search.

They used to detect certain types of queries and offer direct answers when the query matches. In my opinion that’s how Gemini in search results should work.

>they haven't even been able to roll out AI overviews to everyone yet (they're missing in a new Firefox profile I just created)

what in the actual fuck. i don't want them and can't turn them off and they can't even serve them to all users?