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> pretty easy to do what the Google AI does

I thought Gemini just started providing citations in the last few months. Are you saying they should have beaten Google to the punch on this? As part of the $500,000 budget?

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Correct. Much in the same way that videos were online before YouTube, social networks existed before Facebook, and messaging existed before WhatsApp and co, they should have understood their problem set better instead of just following the leaders. Because Gemeni is not this chatbot on steroids, it's a different problem entirely that happens to now employ the same technique.

Also, search says they did links in 2024 for the Google AI. So there's that.

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