Google has been floundering since chatgpt came online. Their press releases all sound the same to me. “We haven’t had real competition for so long that we got complacent, and now we’re not really sure what to do”
WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
With any luck, it will kill google.
I don’t see how they can even pretend that it will do anything other than steal website traffic, since the exact point is to provide you with the information you would have gotten if you had gone to the website, leaving no reason to actually go to the website.
So painfully obviously, Google intends to steal the websites’ content in order to steal the websites’ traffic.
Which would seem to me to be grounds for class action lawsuits on behalf of the entire internet, which, if judged fairly, should bankrupt even that foul beast of a corporation.
And ironically enough, that would almost certainly “rejuvenate the internet.” As a matter of fact, I can’t think of a single thing that would do more to “rejuvenate the internet” than killing Google.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 month ago
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I agree with the above but would like to add that the results are hilariously bad and error-prone. I got results for a simple query about public holidays that were so wrong it was unusable. Once people get to experience the abysmal AI search regularly, they will just stop using it. Whether Google quietly kills it quick enough before people start using alternatives is the billion dollar question.
wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Everyone knows that there are 88 bank holidays a year, starting with Chreaster on Octember 41st.