Honestly the problem is that Google has been trying to fix it. Alternative and diverse incomes is the solution. Everyone wants to make a good product, but ads

Honestly the problem is that Google has been trying to fix it. Alternative and diverse incomes is the solution. Everyone wants to make a good product, but ads make a product worse. Everyone wants to make a heavily used product but pay-per-use or subscriptions are limiting. Google Cloud+Workplace, YouTube Premium, Play Store, Nest, ahem Stadia. Google has plenty of attempts at building products that make money without ads. The problem is that they’re expensive and not nearly as profitable. LLM are bad at search, but people seem to like they. It gives them a clean re-start of search and maybe they’ll use it to do a search subscription where they can retry building their one good product without ads. Probably not though.