@kottke funny this post comes up now. About 15 minutes ago I changed my default search on the work computer to DuckDuckGo because I was tired of Google’s useless AI results. Old information, wrong information, or not at all what I was looking for was 95% of what I was getting. Makes it completely useless.
@kottke Not sure I buy “cheaper”—cheaper than what? Surely any kind of running results through a model is more compute-expensive than returning those results themselves.
I think what Google wants to do is to replace source material with its own summaries, to turn google dot com into a terminus, not a site that helps you navigate away to another site. Google doesn’t want to show you where the answer is; it wants to BE the answer. And then charge more for ads it shows.
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