I'm sure they will rethink this when Trump's term ends.
replyThat would make sense if the AI summaries from Search were a different product.
replyThese summaries have been trivially bolted on, they're entirely self-contained, they can be easily turned off.
replyPossibly they want to evolve the feature to be _not_ bolted on.
replyAnd sometimes they just fail to generate, while the search still shows the usual results.
replySome results also have thumbnails. They could easily be turned off. That doesn’t mean thumbnails are a different product, or an abuse of monopoly power.
replyIt does if the thumbnails are harmful and you're as market dominant as Google with the incalculable levers of coersion like turning off your email or drive which they spend 20 years actively doing everything possible to get everyone to use.
replyWhether the AI summaries are harmful to users of Search has no bearing on whether the AI summaries are an abuse of monopoly power.
replyThey are both, but one is the only reason the other matters.
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