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Somewhat impressive that search share of revenue is 5% down, but search revenue is 12% up..
They have been juicing their numbers recently .... https://x.com/MaxAnderson/status/2080229375773941871
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If this is true how is it not fraud or just regular old theft?
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Advertisers would have pulled out and Google would have lost revenue instead of increasing.

I'm not a believer in Google search long term, but advertisers continue to pay because they still get value - even if Google increases prices.

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While not negative, it seems that their total revenue and EPS was still lower than forecast, hence GOOG stock being down 15% today.
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So replacing actual organic search results with hallucinating AI summaries reduced profitability? Oh no!
More like ChatGPT and AI is disrupting the search market.
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