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Same I use models for nearly everything. Google only better at:

- fast, even the shitty AI results are nearly instant.

- some results like actors in a movie, or where to stream are useful

- instead of typing a url

But that’s it. I never use Google outside of that. It’s just ads, and most of the web is just ads or AI slop.

> But that’s it. I never use Google outside of that. It’s just ads, and most of the web is just ads or AI slop.

Funnily enough, their core revenue driver (Google Ads) is very broken too. I'm trying to run some ads, but for a week they haven't been showing due to some invisible combination of flags when the campaign was created. There's no way of knowing they're not showing from the dashboard, it only becomes apparent when you try and preview the ads with one of your search terms.

I know everyone is long Google but that experience seriously makes me question how valuable their ad business will stay in the future.