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      The only thing Gemini is good for is bringing up sources that don’t appear in the regular Google search results. Which only leads to another question: why are those links not in the regular Google search results?

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        My only guess is that they’re trying to see if de-enshittifying results for AI can make it profitable

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          I was talking about this with a webdev buddy the other day, wondering if webmasters might start optimizing for AI indexing rather than SEO.

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        I’ve genuinely been wondering what the hell the average googler has been up to in the last 5 years. They’re killing services, barely developing new features or hardware, and have been talking for so long (as in, they were genuinely at the forefront) about AI and how they’re in a unique position to make the most out of data, AI, services, and hardware, then failed spectacularly to keep that advantage, and even more spectacularly to keep up.

        I guess they just found some other, more profitable way to exploit that unique position, than to care about the people using their products.

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          isn’t it? all this tech advancement over the past half century, followed billions of dollars of investment on a tech that wastes a monumental amount of energy and water to give you the wrong answer to questions even the most basic calculators can answer.