The specific issue of Google is that they are using an underpowered model, not fit to task, and much prone to hallucination than either OpenAI or Anthropic free tier offerings.
Google should at least match the frontier labs at the free tier (with some limit; after that, degrade quality), ffs
Nobody asked for an LLM response for every single search.
They used to detect certain types of queries and offer direct answers when the query matches. In my opinion that’s how Gemini in search results should work.
what in the actual fuck. i don't want them and can't turn them off and they can't even serve them to all users?
i don't want them and can't turn them off