That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn it less money than it earns by serving ads with its old-school search engine.

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    4 days ago

    Hah! I switched to Startpage for search because of AI search results being garbage, I am sure as shit not paying for it.

    If I pay for any search at all, it’d be Kagi, not Google, which has turned itself into a slop fueled dumpster fire not just in search but with their phones too.

    I used to use Assistant all the time, but they killed it and tried to replace it with Gemini, which is fucking terrible at things the assistant was great at, like setting timers, navigating hands free, and setting reminders. It’s so shitty I’m about to install Graphene or jump ship entirely to either iOS or just a dumb phone.

    So far, the greatest driving force in me getting rid of all Google products is Google itself.

      • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Irritated by Google. I heard getting banking apps working is kind of a pain in the ass though, how’s the experience been for you so far?

        • nullptr@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 days ago

          my banking app works, because it doesn’t require hardware authentication. This will be the case for all “correctly” developed apps, because usually, the “NFC payment” is provided by a second, optional app. That one doesn’t work.

        • Badabinski@kbin.earth
          2·
          4 days ago

          All of my banking apps work perfectly. The only apps that don’t seem to work are Google Wallet (good riddance), FedEx, UPS, and Coinbase (I bought a very small amount of ETH many years ago and haven’t wanted to deal with the tax situation by selling it. I should just do so and then be quits of the horrible piece of shit company).

        • csh83669@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          Google wallet not working means no tap to pay, which I consider a big loss. And none of my credit card apps (chase and capitalone) work outside of Google android, so that sucks.

            • csh83669@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              Sure. I could also just not have a phone, or ever leave the house. But being able to pay for things with ones phone is convenient, and I miss the convenience daily. I wish there were privacy respecting alternatives, but there are not.

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Also biggest of all, old assistant you could go “find image source of current thing on my screen” and it would find it

      I got Gemini forcibly turned on, tried the same, it’s not able to look at my screen

      Turned that shit off first chance I got

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        It’s like Siri and the AI Siri, at least the way it was a few months ago.

        I could ask old Siri what the date would be in the future (next Wednesday, for example), but trying that with AI Siri just gave back “Sorry, I don’t understand”. It somehow seems less capable than the old one, and seems to try and squish everything into ChatGPT. I didn’t let it do that, so it ended up being pointless. I ended up turning it off for old Siri, and even that’s worse without its Wolfram Alpha integration.