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.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    8 days ago

    A company that makes their money from ads in search results just finds out that serving results that skip their promoted results is bad for them. Them decision makers are gooood!

    Seriously, it’s like power companies giving out solar panels.