Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results

https://awful.systems/post/2178630

Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results - awful.systems

But don’t worry! Google’s AI summaries will soon have ads!

dear fuck, pasting ads onto the part of Google search that’s already known to be unreliable and annoying at best seems like a terrible idea. for a laugh, let’s see if there’s any justification for this awful shit in the linked citation

Ads have always been an important part of consumers’ information journeys.

oh these people are on the expensive drugs huh

Ads creativity and performance at scale with Google AI

Google AI is helping marketers engage consumers with new creative features, immersive formats, and Search Ads opportunities.

Google

dear fuck,

i saw this first and immediately guessed the poster correctly

me visually: morning meeting poker face, unfireably cheerful when called on

me internally: dear fuck,

I have long written those sort of internal business emails by first writing the “RIGHT THEN YOU FUCKER,” version then euphemising it
sometimes I even have to write/edit these outside of mail client, just in case
every time