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sriram_malhartoday at 3:27 PM4 repliesview on HN

Anyone who does a Google search gets a satisfactory looking answer as the very first entry. I daresay most people don't go beyond that, not even the entries on the first page, let alone go to the next. I argue that this is at the level of everyone for everything.


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embedding-shapetoday at 3:34 PM

> Anyone who does a Google search gets a satisfactory looking answer as the very first entry.

Google has search results still? I don't use Google much anymore (thanks Kagi), but this is what ends up showing for me, I don't even see any search results anymore: https://i.imgur.com/eHIA2Df.png It seems like it's 50/50 on page reload if the LLM-reply UI expands automatically or not, which covers my entire screen. I guess Google is doing some A/B testing perhaps.

KellyCriteriontoday at 3:39 PM

What Im question is how is Google increasing Price-per-Click each year if people are clicking less and less on the links below the AI search result

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Planktonnetoday at 3:47 PM

Even if we accept that all people are satisfied with the AI search overviews, that would still only be everyone for one thing.

nutjob2today at 3:54 PM

When was the last time you used Google? The first entry (and a few after that) is always spam.

Anyone who does a search and accepts the first answer just doesn't care much or is incompetent. Anyone with any critical thinking whatsoever does way more than that if they want a correct answer.

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