• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      I can’t imagine how much money Google is losing right now. They do 8.5 to 13.7 billion searches a day (+1 because I just googled that). By forcing LLM first, they’ve got to be burning cash.

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        11 days ago

        But their “front facing” LLM is ultra stupid. Can’t become any kind of famous.

        I am sure that it is strategic: show the huge difference to all paying customers.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        I wonder how many unique searches they do per day.

        If you search something that someone else already searched recently, the AI response will pop up almost immediately due to caching. I can’t imagine that brings several billion down to a more manageable number though.