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   Griffith (griffith@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2026 10:20:47 JST Griffith
   One of the big things about open source models is you could use it in place of search engines, even if ads get folded into closed-source models, which would kill the models that do that. Google’s core business is under serious threat. A lot of people just use free Gemini, and more will switch in the future.
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2026 10:20:45 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     @WandererUber @Griffith
     and even then
     >Google’s core business is under serious threat.
     >search
     google has not given a shit about their search engine being good for the last decade. now ad revenue? hardware? gsuite? those probably make more money than search
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2026 10:20:46 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     @Griffith pewdiepie packaged the meta-search engine SearXNG with Odysseus
     
     The problem that remains unsolved is large-scale scraping and indexing, which you can't pull off without infra.
     In the near term, models could probably just search github and other known-good sites directly
     
     Commercial search never gives you that one weird site that you would have never found on your own anymore. Just SEO AI slop.
     So as they get worse and AI gets better, it'll eventually result in what you said, I think. Very plausible!
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2026 10:24:11 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     • Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
     @WandererUber @Griffith
     search basically only exists to index and serve seo-optomized sites that they use adsense to serve ads
     
     also i misread op a bit oops
     but genuinely most people have not heard of anything ai beyond chat, claude, and gemini
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2026 11:18:59 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     @theorytoe @Griffith >those probably make more money than search
     Search was the largest chunk of Google’s income, accounting for $63.3 billion.
     https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-just-had...
     
     you reposted that article yourself you silly billy :AngeryCat:
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2026 11:18:59 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     to be fair, I did just skim (but mostly read the headline (i know kill me))
     
     I will admit i am biased in my take but I also still this search is quite bad, it just happens to be that only le tech nerds think its bad
     
     also I wonder if that cash flow is directly from search or auxiliary to search