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I saw people in the Twitter thread jumping to the conclusion that this is intentional and a move to surfacing the index through AI instead of public search. Wil
by DangitBobby 2y ago
I saw people in the Twitter thread jumping to the conclusion that this is intentional and a move to surfacing the index through AI instead of public search. Wild how quickly people jump to something malicious and outlandish instead of the default which is, you know, some shit is probably borked.
- chatmasta 2y agoSure, but it’s probably not a coincidence that this outage occurred shortly after their rollout of AI results. One could reasonably speculate that Google added some extra work to their indexing process (e.g. to create embeddings), and underestimated the impact of this change on resource consumption.