> Anyone who does a Google search gets a satisfactory looking answer as the very first entry.
replyGoogle has search results still? I don't use Google much anymore (thanks Kagi), but this is what ends up showing for me, I don't even see any search results anymore: https://i.imgur.com/eHIA2Df.png It seems like it's 50/50 on page reload if the LLM-reply UI expands automatically or not, which covers my entire screen. I guess Google is doing some A/B testing perhaps.
A "satisfactory looking answer" was what I got yesterday when I queried Google about a Pyodide question. It produced some code in html format that was supposed to work, but failed on execution. The AI generated result was incorrect and it was only 30ish lines of code that was supposed to print "hello world" to the console.
replyYou still used AI, even if the results weren't correct.
replyWhat Im question is how is Google increasing Price-per-Click each year if people are clicking less and less on the links below the AI search result
replyI don’t see the contradiction? If the inventory of clicks is declining and the number of businesses bidding on clicks is more or less constant, why wouldn’t that increase price?
replyEven if we accept that all people are satisfied with the AI search overviews, that would still only be everyone for one thing.
replyWhen was the last time you used Google? The first entry (and a few after that) is always spam.
replyAnyone who does a search and accepts the first answer just doesn't care much or is incompetent. Anyone with any critical thinking whatsoever does way more than that if they want a correct answer.
Not the first result. The AI summary generated by gemini.
replyPretty sure he's talking about the summary / AI answer and not the first search result
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