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.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      They’re also not getting ad payments from the website side, because people aren’t going to the websites, if they’re just stopping at AI search, and AI search is loading dozens of pages for them.