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Google has also magnificently shit the bed with Gemini; their ads business is getting raked over the coals in court; they are a twice convicted monopolist; and

Google has also magnificently shit the bed with Gemini; their ads business is getting raked over the coals in court; they are a twice convicted monopolist; and are driving away top talent in droves. It reminds me of the old joke: Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good.

riku_iki 2y ago
> their ads business is getting raked over the coals in court only display ads business, which is a fraction of total ads revenue
- fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
  It’s all wired together.
  - riku_iki 2y ago
    display ads probably wired to google infra, but google search + youtube + ads can exists on their own.
starchild3001 2y ago
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- fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
  Product adoption counts, imaginary benchmarks don’t.
  - starchild3001 2y ago
    Tell me how Search AI Overviews aren't using Gemini?
- perryizgr8 2y ago
  I used the newly released gemini live mode. I thought they were positioning it against chatgpt live mode. But the voice is hilariously unnatural. It makes you not want to talk to it at all. If this is the best google can do, they are years behind the competition.
  - starchild3001 2y ago
    I just tried it after your message. It has like 5-10 voices. Many of them very reasonable, some of them quite good on my pixel phone.
    - perryizgr8 2y ago
      I don't even have any options to choose a different voice. It's just a very mechanical voice. I feel the default google assistant voice was way better than this one.
impulser_ 2y ago
People have been talking about the downfall of Google and FB/Meta for years now and yet every single year both of them still grow, still print money, and run the most used products in the world by far. Google's generative ai models probably are used more in a day than the rest combined. Google is a highly profitable business that still has never not grown YoY in its nearly 3 decade history. In you mind you might think Google is going down, but in reality they have only been going up for nearly 3 decades now.

riku_iki 2y ago

> their ads business is getting raked over the coals in court only display ads business, which is a fraction of total ads revenue

fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
It’s all wired together.
- riku_iki 2y ago
  display ads probably wired to google infra, but google search + youtube + ads can exists on their own.

starchild3001 2y ago

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fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
Product adoption counts, imaginary benchmarks don’t.
- starchild3001 2y ago
  Tell me how Search AI Overviews aren't using Gemini?
perryizgr8 2y ago
I used the newly released gemini live mode. I thought they were positioning it against chatgpt live mode. But the voice is hilariously unnatural. It makes you not want to talk to it at all. If this is the best google can do, they are years behind the competition.
- starchild3001 2y ago
  I just tried it after your message. It has like 5-10 voices. Many of them very reasonable, some of them quite good on my pixel phone.
  - perryizgr8 2y ago
    I don't even have any options to choose a different voice. It's just a very mechanical voice. I feel the default google assistant voice was way better than this one.

impulser_ 2y ago

People have been talking about the downfall of Google and FB/Meta for years now and yet every single year both of them still grow, still print money, and run the most used products in the world by far. Google's generative ai models probably are used more in a day than the rest combined. Google is a highly profitable business that still has never not grown YoY in its nearly 3 decade history. In you mind you might think Google is going down, but in reality they have only been going up for nearly 3 decades now.