As an aside, and I said this in a thread yesterday but, what I'm hearing about Kagi (I've not used it yet but I'm signing up today to try it out) and the contra

As an aside, and I said this in a thread yesterday but, what I'm hearing about Kagi (I've not used it yet but I'm signing up today to try it out) and the contrast between the Sora and Gemini 1.5 announcements make me genuinely concerned about the future of Google. Search is so much their golden goose and they've let it languish and now there are real dangers to that product from several flanks. They have Gmail after that but is that enough to keep the coffers full? I had so much hope in Google Workspace as competition to Microsoft 365 but even that is in trouble if you ask me. I've been helping a company migrate from Workspace to M365 and one of their reasons was because they couldn't get any support from Google. Also, Workspace is hard to use. Not that M365 is easy, or that their support is any good but, Google has clear perception problems here. I almost never hear of anyone talking about GCP anymore so I'm guessing they're losing mindshare in addition to market share. Dart and Flutter are wonderful projects but it seems to me that since there's no way to stick ads on them, Google is content to give that department a little money and let them do their thing. But, of course, when some of the aforementioned products start losing more money, great products like Dart and Flutter will certainly be cut. Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way. Maybe Google's time has come and companies like Kagi can come in and fill the void Google seems hell-bent on leaving behind.