One of the most recent was Chrome's plan to force manifest v3. But many of the features promised to devs from v3 wouldn't have been ready by the time v3 was supposed to release. I would approach Google's AI stuff with similar hesitancy as I would have approached Stadia within the last few months before it shut down. Just like with Stadia, Google very clearly does not care to prioritize this kind of AI tech. Google failed to proofread its own ad about Bard. I can't understand how rushed they would have to be for something like that to happen.
In my opinion, this is why new ChatGPT users are going to stay with ChatGPT, even as the aggressive filtering makes the output slightly worse as time goes on.
Engineers: Okay, we have LaMDA which is a more powerful language model, we'll implement it.
Execs: Great, what are the risks?
Engineers: Well each search is going to cost 5x more compute power, and may reduce the amount of clicks to ads and search results since we're answering all their questions directly.
Execs: Hold on... we need to have a bunch of meetings about why not to do this.
That's the literal bottom line. How is Google going to insert ads into an AI system. There's probably people being paid a fortune to try to find out.
Same reason why Mercedes or Audi did not bring automated driving on the road, even though they were technologically more advanced than Tesla. History proved them right.
I've seen many more people appending reddit to Google searches.
google should be more worried about reddit getting their search together
Controlling the search pages is of low value compared to staying fixed at the top of Google searches (thanks to obfuscated interaction rankings) by having a lot of people who search dozens of times a day always selecting only your page in Google's responses and of course never applying captcha to a new visitor from Google.
The biggest search tragedy is Twitter. There’s an incredible amount of information on that platform but most of it is hard to find because of the awful search.
IMO the real issue with twitter is how it only loads tweets on a page to your monitor size. Impossible to CTRL+F if you know what you're looking for even on the right author's page.
First, there is the issue of paid ads. An example is if I look up "How to learn C++", the top link is a paid ad for CodeAcademy, which claims to be free, but then has three tiers with only the basic one being free. I started looking for information on C++ and ended up in a sales room being given a payment plan. Contrast this to me typing "How to learn C++" into ChatGPT, which informs me about "variables, data types, control structures, functions, and arrays", which are a lot of nice keywords that I could jump further into.
Second, Google does not give you access to the information itself. As such, the style the information is stored in on a website is inconsistent, with each website displaying information in drastically different ways. For an example, I Googled "what is a pointer in c++".
The top link starts with "You learned from the previous chapter, that we can get the memory address of a variable by using the & operator", leads to a single example, and is about a single screen long. This would be useless to someone who has no idea what a pointer is and just heard the name of the concept.
Meanwhile the second top link starts with "In earlier chapters, variables have been explained as locations in the computer's memory which can be accessed by their identifier" and is a much more in-depth tutorial spanning over a dozen screens worth of information. This is better as it gives a lot more information, but is still assuming that I got there from following their tutorial, but instead Google just jumped me into the middle of it.
However, ChatGPT homogenizes this, so the data is already organized in an easily accessible format that does not assume you have much previous knowledge. When I tried ChatGPT with this question, it started with "A pointer is a variable in C++ that stores the memory address of another variable." That is far better than either of the websites that I tried with Google that assumed you were halfway through their personal tutorials.
And then when ChatGPT launched they got caught with their pants down and rushed to save face.
And the irony is that if they had simply worked on perfecting standard keyword based information retrieval, the thirst for a LLM integrated search engine would not be as high.