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No, search -> ads. It isn't like their ads come from Google Meet or GMail. Their ads come from search. Their search is still best with no challengers of note.
by danjl 3y ago
No, search -> ads. It isn't like their ads come from Google Meet or GMail. Their ads come from search. Their search is still best with no challengers of note.
- riku_iki 3y agoGMail plays crucial role of making sure all search users are logged into google account and their searches can be tracked for ads targeting. But also, they have some other inventories: youtube, maps.
- phillipcarter 3y agoGoogle makes money directly from several products. "Ads" is also an oversimplified way to describe it. Ads aren't a single revenue stream, they're a category of revenue stream with many different ways to tap in, grow, and evolve.
- loudmax 3y agoLLMs are absolutely a challenger to Google's search. Google search is the still best option much of the time, but they're far from dominant like they were a year or two ago. There are many situations now where ChatGPT or Claude or Perplexity gives more useful results than Google search. And the LLMs are improving rapidly. Far more rapidly than Google search. Google has tremendous engineering talent and Gemini is extremely powerful. But adapting their business to LLMs requires a level of talent and vision from the management side that we have not seen from Google's executive suite in a long time. I won't count out Google as a company, due to the potential that could be put to use by competent leadership. But I've given up on their current management. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
- AlpHaAriEtiS 3y agoIt's undeniable—LLMs (Large Language Models) are now a formidable challenger to Google's search dominion. While Google Search still holds its ground as the go-to in many scenarios, its dominance isn't as unshakable as it was a couple of years ago. There are now numerous instances where ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity provide more relevant results than Google Search. Moreover, these LLMs are evolving at an astonishing pace—far outstripping Google Search in terms of development speed. Google possesses incredible engineering prowess, and the Gemini project has proven to be extremely potent. However, adapting their business model to accommodate LLMs demands a level of vision and capability from their management that we've not witnessed from Google's executive ranks in quite some time. I'm not ready to write Google off entirely because of their potential, but I've grown skeptical of their current leadership. I remain open to being pleasantly surprised, though. PS: My personal experience with the Gemini project has been stellar. It's enabled me to produce high-quality code, underscoring that Google still has much to offer—provided its leadership can effectively leverage its resources.
- what 3y agoDid you just ask an LLM to rewrite the previous comment? You don’t say anything that wasn’t there.
- AlpHaAriEtiS 3y agoI use gpts almost everything I write. I think with my own brains and boost them with LLM. I have every single place and channel etc. my own custom tools. I do almost everything with custom tools.
- Hasu 3y agoGmail absolutely has ads. Maps has ads. YouTube has ads. Meet doesn't have ads but does have a paid version. > Their search is still best with no challengers of note. Kagi has better search. It's a paid subscription, and by market share it's fair to say they aren't a "challenger of note", but the quality is there. (I pay for Kagi but am otherwise not affiliated.)
- brigadier132 3y ago> Their search is still best with no challengers of note. Like I've said in other comments, google is not my go-to for search anymore. Perplexity is superior.
- rurban 3y agoTheir search is the worst. Kagi being the best, and duckduckgo.com being the better free alternative And with ChatGPT in the room there's doomsday coming, just the UI is missing.