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> far-fetched Remember Google? Once it was far-fetched that they would make the search worse just to show you more ads. Now, it is a reality. With tokens, it

• throwthrowuknow 9mo ago
  Only if you are paying per token on the API. If you are paying a fixed monthly fee then they lose money when you need to burn more tokens and they lose customers when you can’t solve your problems within that month and max out your session limits and end up with idle time which you use to check if the other providers have caught up or surpassed your current favourite.
  • layla5alive 9mo ago
    Indeed, unlimited plan seems like the only way that makes sense to not have it be guaranteed to be abused by the provider
• retsibsi 9mo ago
  > Now, it is a reality. What are the details of this? I'm not playing dumb, and of course I've noticed the decline, but I thought it was a combination of losing the battle with SEO shite and leaning further and further into a 'give the user what you think they want, rather than what they actually asked for' philosophy.
  • supriyo-biswas 9mo ago
    https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
  • SetTheorist 8mo ago
    As recently as 15 years ago, Google _explicitly_ stated in their employee handbook that they would NOT, as a matter of principle, include ads in the search results. (Source: worked there at that time.) Now, they do their best to deprioritize and hide non-ad results...