Google Search Called Useless as AI Cuts Profits — SkimNews
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- Google Search is portrayed as deteriorating from “very handy” to “useless,” with the source linking that decline to Google’s AI summary feature.
- Google’s AI summary is described as punching a “huge hole” in Google’s profits, making the feature’s financial cost the piece’s central concern.
Why it matters: The critique puts two burdens on the same Google feature: search users are left with a service the piece calls “useless,” while Google is said to face a large profit loss from its own AI summaries. That pairing makes monetization part of the product-quality complaint, rather than a separate issue.
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