google what you just said and look at the top hit
it's a AI summary
google eats that ad revenue
it eats the whole thing
it blocked your click on the link... it drinks your milkshake
so, yes, there a 100 billion commercially viable product
it's a AI summary
google eats that ad revenue
it eats the whole thing
it blocked your click on the link... it drinks your milkshake
so, yes, there a 100 billion commercially viable product
If users just look at the AI overview at the top of the search page, Google is hobbling two sources of revenue (AdSense, sponsored search results), and also disincentivizing people from sharing information on the web that makes their AI overview useful. In the process of all this they are significantly increasing the compute costs for each Google search.
This may be a necessary step to stay competitive with AI startups' search products, but I don't think this is a great selling point for AI commercialization.
To thunderous applause.