hagenblix warns Google's pivot makes it a second-rate player
3 Nov 3 10:45 AM · 5d ago · 1 post · 2 comments · 2 sources · development 3 of 3
A Bluesky user argues that Google's strategy to shift the market from traditional search to retrieval-augmented LLMs is self-defeating, moving Google from market leader to a weaker competitor.
“Weird business model to transform the market from a thing where you were leagues above the rest to one where you're a second rate player at best.”
@hagenblixGoogle Search and advertising company
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Why do you think self hosted would be cheaper? Hyperscalers can better use massive scale to offer cheaper compute, that's kind of their thing. Even if you can predict your demand precise enough to have high utilization, your power and cooling will be more expensive anyway. If you can self host cheaper than hyperscalers you should throw away your…
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Google working hard to force everyone to switch from traditional search engines to retrieval-augmented LLMs. — Weird business model to transform the market from a thing where you were leagues above the rest to one where you're a second rate player at best. Don't really see this ending well for google
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The same way influencer sponsorship works i guess. Ai will tell you lies for pay in the answers, from whomever is willing to pay google. It wont look like typical ads.
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you don't need to pretrain it. It'll be similar to how Gemini searches the web when you ask it questions, except it searches the ad database also
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Whenever they start enshittifying this stuff is the point when I switch to an open source local model permanently.
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But you can’t milk a tortoise You're not trying hard enough. Gotta get those numbers up.
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