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Google spent billions building AI just to make Search dumber than ever

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Google used to be the kind of relentlessly ambitious tech giant that pursued moonshots reminiscent of science fiction; think internet delivered via giant balloons and even an effort to try and cheat death.

Today , a Google Search user might literally die if they follow some of the insane advice of Google’s AI Overviews , the new iteration of Search that frequently serves up machine-generated slop.

It’s not that Google ’s engineers aren’t working hard enough. It’s that they aren’t being led. If Brin wants to know why Google lost its edge, he should ask himself and Page why they handed the company over to a caretaker CEO instead of staying in the fight to define the future themselves..