I was extremely AI hesitant, but recently I was just like fuck it, I’ll use these tools.
I went on Google AI mode multiple times and I noticed:
As long as you aren’t generating images, you can basically do free tokens forever on it.
It has no ads.
It’s better at finding relevant information than search is.
I found a set of peripherals with it that actually matched my preferences and were not listed on the slop ratings sites. Then I bought it without a hope of Google seeing a red cent from the transaction.
All of this is to say that…they torched their actual business with revenue to give away a largely ad-free thing that’s a money furnace and has such negative public sentiment that it probably gets zero traffic except people that are hooking it up to opencode to get free tokens.
It seriously doesn’t even require you to login. Everything about it is so fucking stupid from a business angle.
We all know by now that this is only a temporary state so enjoy it while it lasts.
My worry with AI search as I’ve seen it work, is that since it gives you a single or narrow answer instead of a range of options to choose from per the normal search, you could get funneled to exactly the content the platform wants you to see, further removing control from the user and my irrational(?) fear is that the ads are effectively hidden because the content is the ad
I was extremely AI hesitant, but recently I was just like fuck it, I’ll use these tools.
I went on Google AI mode multiple times and I noticed:
I found a set of peripherals with it that actually matched my preferences and were not listed on the slop ratings sites. Then I bought it without a hope of Google seeing a red cent from the transaction.
All of this is to say that…they torched their actual business with revenue to give away a largely ad-free thing that’s a money furnace and has such negative public sentiment that it probably gets zero traffic except people that are hooking it up to opencode to get free tokens.
It seriously doesn’t even require you to login. Everything about it is so fucking stupid from a business angle.
Homer: “It has no ads… So far”
We all know by now that this is only a temporary state so enjoy it while it lasts.
My worry with AI search as I’ve seen it work, is that since it gives you a single or narrow answer instead of a range of options to choose from per the normal search, you could get funneled to exactly the content the platform wants you to see, further removing control from the user and my irrational(?) fear is that the ads are effectively hidden because the content is the ad
Yep agreed with all of that but I think it costs too much per user to really have an ad based business model.
It’s probably both long term. Ads plus limits. “Buy Google AI Plus to talk to Gemini more.”
Only problem is nobody will pay for it, people don’t even want to use it for free.