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.

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Wait, are those people so fucked in the head they genuinely tricked themselves into thinking users… Like ads?
I swear every VP of Marketing at ShitCorp on mastodon shows up with that exact take in every adblocker thread. some of them follow it up with “…and the modern web wouldn’t exist without ads”, which is how you know they’re on the expensive drugs — these marketing geniuses haven’t noticed the fediverse’s got a pretty fucking dim view of the modern web as a whole