It would be good, but unfortunately unlikely to happen.
But don't underestimate the stupidity to publicly disregard the authority of important nation states.
Once it seems like a company is arrogantly putting itself above "the government"there is the danger that it is perceived as a competitor to the ones deciding public policy which in turn can lead to a swift smack down.
US big tech has become too influential (and self righteous) to continue to ignore on the (intend)national level.
In my opinion their execs should do some strategic groveling and to make sure the gravy keeps rolling.
I think the rubicon has been already crossed on that with the defence contractors and big oil. US gov seems beholden to both and those industries have massively influenced US domestic and foreign policy.
Google, Apple, Meta etc seem to be weirdly incompetent at playing the political publicity game.
They now have to compete against ChatGPT and they are late in the game. To make things worse, their reputation suffered a great deal with techies who despise their whole image and are actively trying to "degoogle" their lives. This may well be the beginning of a slow downturn since these people have an influence on the tech choices made by more "normal" users.
What if it doesn't even matter if they can keep a dominant position of their search engine?
These antitrust cases appear to be just a sign of a much larger pile of trouble ahead for Google.
Now the internet has become homogenized to a point where outside forces are constantly telling individuals what where to go on the internet.
I use search for doing research and development which is different than shopping or socializing.
According to what exactly? Journalist speculation?
It's something I have experienced myself and observed in my surroundings, including many comments on HN that point to the same direction.
Whilst I didn't say that it did, would you mind sharing some sources for your claim?
As for the actual search traffic to Google, I can only refer to my own personal experience. I have certainly changed my habits after AI became mainstream, and as a consequence I now google a lot less. These days I will often hit up ChatGPT (or other AI services) instead of using Google, despite the "opinion" of ChatGPT perhaps being a little less accurate.
That (Earnings Call 2023/Q2) says that “search and other” revenue rose to $42.63 billion, up slightly from last year.
Doesn't sound like a big growth story to me. Also it would be interesting to know what "other" means.
Where do you get the traffic numbers from?
> Please get out of your bubble.
Maybe you are in a bubble?
Traffic would be interesting, because it's not that impacted by other factors such as inflation, recessions etc.
It's also important to note that search revenue is not positively impacted by organic searches, which I'd guess would be the majority of what ChatGPT replaces currently.
[1] yes I know that’s not technically true. I know it’s supppose to the present value of all future returns.
yeah like duck duck crap which after 12+ years and endless marketing is still a niche and still not that good as a search engine? The closest thing to competition is Meta, but that is social networking.
Even Chat GPT is not a threat to the mobile ads dominance of Google. Google ads are everywhere, Bing-Chat integration is just limited to search, and this is assuming people use it, which if Microsoft's failed 20 year foray into search is any indication, is not exactly promising.